{"id":825,"date":"2024-07-12T19:58:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluh2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=825"},"modified":"2024-07-12T19:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:58:32","slug":"zhar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/zhar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017dh\u00e1\u0159"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Czech State Award for Literature 1936
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About the Book<\/summary>\n
Original Title<\/strong><\/td>\u017dh\u00e1\u0159<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/strong><\/td>1935<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>Melantrich, Prague<\/td><\/tr>
Pages<\/strong><\/td>181<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
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USA<\/strong><\/td>Twisted Spoon – Prague<\/td><\/tr>
The Netherlands<\/strong><\/td>Zirmiri – Amsterdam<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Zbe\u010dnov, 1935. Life in the border town in the mountains of eastern Bohemia goes about its routine. Everyone is minding their own business: Josef Simon runs The Silver Pigeon, the inn and regular pub of a motley clientele, his enigmatic wife longs for her birthplace, and their two adolescent children Eli\u0161ka and Kamil struggle with the constraints of their age. But everything changes with a series of unexplained fires. Who on earth is this arsonist? Every day this question echoes in the Silver Pigeon. The fires increasingly arouse suspicion among the residents and bring up repressed emotions. In an increasingly grim atmosphere, the saying “small town, big hell” turns out to be entirely true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egon Hostovsk\u00fd develops a suffocating plot, steeped in the uneasiness of the interwar period. The envy, mistrust between Czechs, Germans and Jews, and references to political radical ideologies become a clear and shocking omen of the tragedy that would unfold a few years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Arsonist\u2019 is sharp and gripping, and at the same time not written without fine humour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWonderful literature, sharp and poignant, and at the same time written not without fine humour. I savoured it.\u00a0\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Boekensite Gent<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2018The Arsonist\u2019 is a spare, elegant meditation on unseen terror, given form in random fires within a small town in eastern Bohemia as Czech and Prussian anti-Semitism erupts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Liter\u00e1rn\u00ed noviny<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe book\u2019s surface mystery story serves mostly as a mirror and backdrop for the psychological action that is its theme and emotional core. By the book\u2019s close, fire, darkness, suspicion and secrecy have twisted into a network of associations that illuminate both Kamil\u2019s troubled family and the entire town.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 The Prague Post<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Arsonist<\/summary>\n

Twisted Spoon, Prague, 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Christopher Morris<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

De brandstichter<\/summary>\n

Zirimiri, Amsterdam, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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