{"id":274,"date":"2024-07-10T16:09:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluh2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=274"},"modified":"2024-07-10T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:09:44","slug":"hrdina-od-madridu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/hrdina-od-madridu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hrdina od Madridu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u201cMark\u00e9ta Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1 has created a sophisticated novel with great sensitivity and literary skill.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Prager Zeitung<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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About the Book<\/summary>\n
Original Title<\/strong><\/td>Hrdina od Madridu<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/strong><\/td>2016<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>Pikador Books, \u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice<\/td><\/tr>
Pages<\/strong><\/td>74<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
Rights Sold<\/summary>\n
Austria<\/strong><\/td>Wieser – Klagenfurt<\/td><\/tr>
The Netherlands<\/strong><\/td>Voetnoot – Antverp<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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When Carmen, a Spanish student, is looking for a topic for her thesis, an unexpected meeting with an old gypsy woman puts her on the trail of Czechoslovaks who fought with the International Brigades against General Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). She learns Czech and goes in search of surviving veterans. One of them is Franti\u0161ek \u2018Francisco\u2019 Rek. In an alternating narrative, which repeatedly raises the question of why someone goes to fight in a foreign country, we delve into Francisco’s eventful life. The story of both Carmen and Francisco then takes some surprising turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hero of Madrid<\/em> was shortlisted for the Josef \u0160kvoreck\u00fd Award 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe skillfully written novel is not boring, and although the final denouement may seem partially expected from a certain point on, it still leaves certain questions unanswered. It\u2019s just a pity that those about whom the story is told have, for the most part, not received the tribute Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1 pays them without pathos or exaggeration.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 iLiteratura<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Der Held von Madrid<\/summary>\n

Wieser, Klagenfurt, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Sophia Marzolff<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

De held van Madrid<\/summary>\n

Voetnoot, Antverp, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Edgar de Bruin<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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(The Hero of Madrid) \u201cMark\u00e9ta Pil\u00e1tov\u00e1 has created a sophisticated novel with great sensitivity and literary skill.\u201d \u2014 Prager Zeitung When Carmen, a Spanish student, is looking for a topic for her thesis, an unexpected meeting with an old gypsy woman puts her on the trail of Czechoslovaks who fought with the International Brigades against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-274","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}