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Rozmarné léto

Summer of Caprice

Vladislav Vančura

Czech·C1 Advanced·114 sections

Lyrická novela o malém českém lázeňském městečku Krokovy Vary, kde tři kamarádi — plavčí Antonín Důra, abbé Roch a major Hugo — prožívají rozmarné letní dny, jejich poklidný stereotyp naruší příchod kouzelnického páru. Vančurův jazyk je vrcholem české moderní prózy.

A lyrical novella about a small Czech spa town, Krokovy Vary, where three friends — the bathing-master Antonín Důra, the abbé Roch, and Major Hugo — spend their capricious summer days. Their peaceful routine is disturbed by the arrival of a magician and his companion. Vančura's language is the high point of Czech modernist prose.

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Source

Digitální knihovna MZK

Praha: Aventinum, 1926

Public domain — Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942) and Josef Čapek (1887–1945), both died over 70 years ago.

Original creators

  • Vladislav Vančuraauthor (1891–1942)
  • Josef Čapekillustrator (1887–1945)

Technical notes

English translation and image cleanup produced with AI assistance, with human editorial review.

Data attribution

Project has been using data provided by the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ Research Infrastructure (https://lindat.cz), supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (Project No. LM2023062)