{"id":810,"date":"2024-07-12T19:51:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluh2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=810"},"modified":"2024-07-12T19:51:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:51:55","slug":"ukryt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/ukryt\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00dakryt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u201cA chilling short novel about a Czech man in hiding.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 De Volkskrant<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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About the Book<\/summary>\n
Original Title<\/strong><\/td>\u00dakryt<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/strong><\/td>1946<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>Melantrich, Prague<\/td><\/tr>
Pages<\/strong><\/td>130<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
The very first edition was published in 1943, in Texas, USA, by friends of the author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
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United Kingdom<\/strong><\/td>Pushkin Press – London<\/td><\/tr>
Denmark<\/strong><\/td>Silkefyret – Aarhus<\/td><\/tr>
The Netherlands<\/strong><\/td>Zirmiri – Amsterdam<\/td><\/tr>
Turkey<\/strong><\/td>Livera – Izmir<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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During the war years Hostovsk\u00fd published probably one of his most remarkable works. In this short novel he made use of his own experiences when he was forced to flee Paris in 1940 amidst a large mass of despairing refugees trying to escape before the German army. Hostovsk\u00fd ended up in Normandy. The novel is about a Czech engineer who founds refuge in the dark cellar of a friend in Normandy. The text is one long goodbye letter, reflecting his life, to his wife in Prague shortly before the French resistance sends him on a suicide sabotage mission. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A powerful and moving novel about one man’s fatal and heroic resistance against the Nazi regime in France, The Hideout<\/em> is a novel of exile written by one of the great Czech writers of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This book is not about the harshness of existence in a war, but rather the inner struggle between despair and faith. That he can address it to his ‘dear wife’, of whom he does not know how she is doing, is the only foothold he seems to have. The open-ended story leaves us just the same: adrift and detached.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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\u201cThe Hideout is an important work of existentialism that recalls Albert Camus\u2019s The Stranger and Jean-Paul Sartre\u2019s Nausea in terms of probing the reality of self-knowledge and the nature of good and evil. Though dark, the novel has a poetry all its own. It contains awe-inspiring passages and a wondrous mysticism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Shelf Awareness<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2018The Hideout\u2019 is a singular text, certainly, but an important one, which bears reading for its insights into \u201cdark times\u201d present and past.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 The Brooklyn Review<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEgon Hostovsk\u00fd again proves that he is the most gifted of the exiled Czech writers. \u2018The Hideout\u2019 is blessed with all the outstanding qualities of Hostovsk\u00fd\u2019s art: strong tension, sharp characterization, a searching analysis of a \u201cweak hero\u201d, a perfect picture of a troubled time full of treason and turmoil.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Books Abroad<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Hideout<\/summary>\n

Pushkin Press, London, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Fern Long<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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Silkefyret, Aarhus, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Josef Suchanek<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

De schuilplek<\/summary>\n

Zirimiri, Amsterdam, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

S\u0131\u011f\u0131nak<\/summary>\n

Livera, Izmir, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Martin Ala\u00e7am<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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