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Pociągi pod specjalnym nadzorem. Postrzyżyny
Główny bohater "Pociągów..." Miłosz Pipka ma dokonać aktu dywersji i rzucić bombę na niemiecki pociąg.
Ale najbardziej Miłosz Pipka usiłuje zostać mężczyzną. Co znaczy: opanować swój największy problem. Bo ważniejszy od drugiej wojny światowej jest dla niego przedwczesny wytrysk. O rzuceniu bomby widz dowiaduje się jakoś między wierszami, czy między klatkami taśmy, bez celebrowanych knowań, bez napięcia. Tak jakby (napisał pewien czeski eseista) nie chodziło o niezwykły czyn, ale o jeden wygłup między innymi wygłupami.
Ale najbardziej Miłosz Pipka usiłuje zostać mężczyzną. Co znaczy: opanować swój największy problem. Bo ważniejszy od drugiej wojny światowej jest dla niego przedwczesny wytrysk. O rzuceniu bomby widz dowiaduje się jakoś między wierszami, czy między klatkami taśmy, bez celebrowanych knowań, bez napięcia. Tak jakby (napisał pewien czeski eseista) nie chodziło o niezwykły czyn, ale o jeden wygłup między innymi wygłupami.
160 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
Bohumil Hrabal
185 books1,319 followersBorn in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.
Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.
He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.
His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").
He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the then-US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright on January 11th, 1994.
Several of his works were not published in Czechoslovakia due to the objections of the authorities, including The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Městečko, kde se zastavil čas) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále).
He died when he fell from a fifth floor hospital where he was apparently trying to feed pigeons. It was noted that Hrabal lived on the fifth floor of his apartment building and that suicides by leaping from a fifth-floor window were mentioned in several of his books.
He was buried in a family grave in the cemetery in Hradištko. In the same grave his mother "Maryška", step father "Francin", uncle "Pepin", wife "Pipsi" and brother "Slávek" were buried.
He wrote with an expressive, highly visual style, often using long sentences; in fact his work Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) is made up of just one sentence. Many of Hrabal's characters are portrayed as "wise fools" - simpletons with occasional or inadvertent profound thoughts - who are also given to coarse humour, lewdness, and a determination to survive and enjoy oneself despite harsh circumstances. Political quandaries and their concomitant moral ambiguities are also a recurrent theme.
Along with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera - who were also imaginative and amusing satirists - he is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century. His works have been translated into 27 languages.
Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.
He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.
His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").
He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the then-US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright on January 11th, 1994.
Several of his works were not published in Czechoslovakia due to the objections of the authorities, including The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Městečko, kde se zastavil čas) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále).
He died when he fell from a fifth floor hospital where he was apparently trying to feed pigeons. It was noted that Hrabal lived on the fifth floor of his apartment building and that suicides by leaping from a fifth-floor window were mentioned in several of his books.
He was buried in a family grave in the cemetery in Hradištko. In the same grave his mother "Maryška", step father "Francin", uncle "Pepin", wife "Pipsi" and brother "Slávek" were buried.
He wrote with an expressive, highly visual style, often using long sentences; in fact his work Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) is made up of just one sentence. Many of Hrabal's characters are portrayed as "wise fools" - simpletons with occasional or inadvertent profound thoughts - who are also given to coarse humour, lewdness, and a determination to survive and enjoy oneself despite harsh circumstances. Political quandaries and their concomitant moral ambiguities are also a recurrent theme.
Along with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera - who were also imaginative and amusing satirists - he is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century. His works have been translated into 27 languages.
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June 26, 2017
Specyficzny, czeski humor nie pasuje każdemu, ale Hrabal jest specyficzny nawet dla Czechów. Jednak pozostaje klasyką literatury światowej.
September 30, 2024
„Pociągi pod specjalnym nadzorem” to specyficzny czeski humor zderzony z grozą II wojny światowej. Opowieść o życiu i pracy na małej stacji kolejowej , przez którą przejeżdżają między innymi niemieckie pociągi transportujące broń na front. Głównym tematem tej mikropowieści staje się jednak nie wielka wojenna historia, a inicjacja seksualna, dzięki której głównym bohater może stać się mężczyzną. Choć Hrabal umiejętnie łączy wydarzenia o charakterze heroicznym i tragicznym to dla współczesnego odbiorcy nie jest to nic wywołującego zachwyt.Czytając jednak utwór jako „dziecko swojej epoki” , trzeba przyznać, że sposób prowadzenia narracji przez czeskiego pisarza był czymś jak na swoje czasy nowatorskim.
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September 6, 2020
3 gwiazdki na czeski humor, który nie każdemu się spodoba i należy do dość specyficznych. Spodziewałam się czegoś więcej, lekkie rozczarowanie
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