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Marketa Lazarová / Vladislav Vančura ; translated from the Czech by Carleton Bulkin.
Van Pelt Library PG5038.V3 M313 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vančura, Vladislav, 1891-1942, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Marketa Lazarová. English
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bohemia (Czech Republic)--History--To 1526--Fiction.
- Bohemia (Czech Republic).
- Vendetta--Fiction.
- Vendetta.
- Brigands and robbers--Fiction.
- Brigands and robbers.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Middle Ages--Fiction.
- Middle Ages.
- Czech Republic--Bohemia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 183 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Prague : Twisted Spoon Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Czech.
- Summary:
- "Medieval Bohemia, the petty nobility nothing more than highwaymen, literally robber barons, and the king has to dispatch troops to restore order. 'Marketa Lazarová' was promised to God at birth, destined to live her life in a convent, but she is abducted by one of the neighboring Kozlík clan and discovers her sensual self. Told in shifting perspectives, mixing the archaic with the modern, the elevated with the vulgar, Vančura's tale is a compressed epic, less historical novel (the history of his ancestors) than paean to honor, courage, life, carnality, and above all a love that undermines conventional notions of the profane as it shifts to a sacred outside the sanctions of religious dogma. In so doing, he shows the nexus between Crown and Church to subjugate those who prefer to follow their own natures over following imposed laws and precepts. Adopting a cinematic approach to draw the reader into the action, as if events were happening right before one's eyes, Vančura incorporates elements of his Poetist affinities from a decade earlier to create a work that deserves its place among the classics of interwar modernism. 'Marketa Lazarová' was awarded Czechoslovakia's State Prize for Literature upon its publication in 1931 yet has been largely known by František Vláčil's 1967 film adaptation, generally considered one of the greatest achievements of Czech cinema, and unavailable in English until now." -- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Czech.
- ISBN:
- 9788086264431
- 8086264432
- OCLC:
- 964569518
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