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Hussite Trilogy #1-3
Trylogia husycka
Luksusowe wydanie Trylogii husyckiej Andrzeja Sapkowskiego, składające się z tomów: Narrenturm, Boży bojownicy i Lux perpetua. W twardej oprawie, w etui.
Trylogia husycka to cykl historyczno-fantastycznym o wojnach husyckich, akcja którego toczy się w piętnastym wieku na terenie Czech, Moraw, Śląska, Węgier, ówczesnej Polski i Niemiec.
Sapkowski w niepowtarzalnym stylu opisuje okrucieństwo wojny, zwłaszcza bratobójczej, i piętnuje nietolerancję religijną. W swojej powieści stworzył szereg barwnych postaci, którym przyszło żyć i zachować przyzwoitość w czasach pogardy.
Główny bohater, Reynevan z Bielawy, medyk, romantyczny kochanek i z konieczności husycki szpieg, określa sam siebie jako Ślązaka. Nie Czecha ani Niemca, ani tym bardziej Polaka, choć biegle posługuje się językami wszystkich tych nacji i dzieli ludzi według kryteriów moralnych, a nie narodowościowych. Studiował w Pradze, ale w trakcie swych rozlicznych peregrynacji odwiedził wiele czeskich i śląskich miast i miasteczek. Miejsca owe opisał Sapkowski z niezwykłym pietyzmem: średniowieczne Praga i Wrocław pod jego piórem wprost tętnią życiem.
Trylogia husycka to cykl historyczno-fantastycznym o wojnach husyckich, akcja którego toczy się w piętnastym wieku na terenie Czech, Moraw, Śląska, Węgier, ówczesnej Polski i Niemiec.
Sapkowski w niepowtarzalnym stylu opisuje okrucieństwo wojny, zwłaszcza bratobójczej, i piętnuje nietolerancję religijną. W swojej powieści stworzył szereg barwnych postaci, którym przyszło żyć i zachować przyzwoitość w czasach pogardy.
Główny bohater, Reynevan z Bielawy, medyk, romantyczny kochanek i z konieczności husycki szpieg, określa sam siebie jako Ślązaka. Nie Czecha ani Niemca, ani tym bardziej Polaka, choć biegle posługuje się językami wszystkich tych nacji i dzieli ludzi według kryteriów moralnych, a nie narodowościowych. Studiował w Pradze, ale w trakcie swych rozlicznych peregrynacji odwiedził wiele czeskich i śląskich miast i miasteczek. Miejsca owe opisał Sapkowski z niezwykłym pietyzmem: średniowieczne Praga i Wrocław pod jego piórem wprost tętnią życiem.
- GenresFantasyPolish Literature
1744 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
Andrzej Sapkowski
203 books19.2k followersAndrzej Sapkowski, born June 21, 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. His first short story, The Witcher (Wiedźmin), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher, comprising three collections of short stories and five novels. This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best-known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s.
The main character of The Witcher (alternative translation: The Hexer) is Geralt, a mutant assassin who has been trained since childhood to hunt down and destroy monsters. Geralt exists in an ambiguous moral universe, yet manages to maintain his own coherent code of ethics. At the same time cynical and noble, Geralt has been compared to Raymond Chandler's signature character Philip Marlowe. The world in which these adventures take place is heavily influenced by Slavic mythology.
Sapkowski has won five Zajdel Awards, including three for short stories "Mniejsze zło" (Lesser Evil) (1990), "Miecz przeznaczenia" (Sword of Destiny) (1992) and "W leju po bombie" (In a Bomb Crater) (1993), and two for the novels "Krew elfów" (Blood of Elves) (1994) and "Narrenturm" (2002). He also won the Spanish Ignotus Award, best anthology, for The Last Wish in 2003, and for "Muzykanci" (The Musicians), best foreign short story, same year.
In 1997, Sapkowski won the prestigious Polityka's Passport award, which is awarded annually to artists who have strong prospects for international success.
In 2001, a Television Series based on the Witcher cycle was released in Poland and internationally, entitled Wiedźmin (The Hexer). A film by the same title was compiled from excerpts of the television series but both have been critical and box office failures.
Sapkowski's books have been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, French, Ukrainian, and Portuguese. An English translation of The Last Wish short story collection was published by Gollancz in 2007.
The Polish game publisher, CD Projekt, created a role-playing PC game based on this universe, called The Witcher, which was released in October 2007. There is also a mobile version of the game which has been created by Breakpoint Games and is being published by Hands-On Mobile in Western Europe,Latin America and Asia Pacific.
The English translation of Sapkowski's novel Blood of Elves won the David Gemmell Legends Award in 2009.
The main character of The Witcher (alternative translation: The Hexer) is Geralt, a mutant assassin who has been trained since childhood to hunt down and destroy monsters. Geralt exists in an ambiguous moral universe, yet manages to maintain his own coherent code of ethics. At the same time cynical and noble, Geralt has been compared to Raymond Chandler's signature character Philip Marlowe. The world in which these adventures take place is heavily influenced by Slavic mythology.
Sapkowski has won five Zajdel Awards, including three for short stories "Mniejsze zło" (Lesser Evil) (1990), "Miecz przeznaczenia" (Sword of Destiny) (1992) and "W leju po bombie" (In a Bomb Crater) (1993), and two for the novels "Krew elfów" (Blood of Elves) (1994) and "Narrenturm" (2002). He also won the Spanish Ignotus Award, best anthology, for The Last Wish in 2003, and for "Muzykanci" (The Musicians), best foreign short story, same year.
In 1997, Sapkowski won the prestigious Polityka's Passport award, which is awarded annually to artists who have strong prospects for international success.
In 2001, a Television Series based on the Witcher cycle was released in Poland and internationally, entitled Wiedźmin (The Hexer). A film by the same title was compiled from excerpts of the television series but both have been critical and box office failures.
Sapkowski's books have been translated into Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Spanish, French, Ukrainian, and Portuguese. An English translation of The Last Wish short story collection was published by Gollancz in 2007.
The Polish game publisher, CD Projekt, created a role-playing PC game based on this universe, called The Witcher, which was released in October 2007. There is also a mobile version of the game which has been created by Breakpoint Games and is being published by Hands-On Mobile in Western Europe,Latin America and Asia Pacific.
The English translation of Sapkowski's novel Blood of Elves won the David Gemmell Legends Award in 2009.
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February 2, 2013
Excellent - funny, interesting, imaginative. I especially liked the language play that you can only truly appreciate reading it in original. The history is not exactly following the facts, but there is quite a few bits that give us the picture of the style of life in middle ages - great picture drawing with not always simple words. Kept me glued to all three books till I read the last words and left wishing I haven't finished yet.
January 1, 2025
Anyone who liked The Witcher must read this too :D
February 17, 2019
Bardzo ciekawa opowieść osadzona w czasach wojen husyckich. Słabością tej powieści są elementy magiczne , sabaty czarownic, ale to jest przecież Sapkowski....
November 1, 2019
You might know Andrzej Sapkowski as the creator of the famous "Witcher" series that has come to much international acclaim also through the adaptations as video games, board games, ...
I feel like this triology is a true testiment to his growth as an author. His story-telling is somewhat softer, less blunt -- without losing any of it's edge or gravity. The story is fascinating and kept me hooked until the end.
The books come with a free extra lesson in central European history on top, I learned so much about the Hussian wars, military history, how people imagined magic in the 1400s, ... I spent quite some time looking up the names, grimoires, places on Wikipedia, and discovered a whole fascinating world that I had no clue about. You can read the books without any of that for sure, and pretend it's just a fantasy series. But it's so much more than that.
I had no trouble accepting that characters and their development are not at the heart of the author's attention, that between the dozens of well-researched factoids, there are some inaccuracies around the historic context (people find a book that really only was written 200 years later), ... none of that took away from the enjoyment of reading this the slightest.
As a last note: I was "reading" these by listening, through Audible, in German language.
Elmar Börger's voice was the cherry on top for me. He did an absolutely fantastic job, with the voices, accents... I loved every bit of it.
Chances are not bad that I'll even revisit these books some day.
Fully recommended.
I feel like this triology is a true testiment to his growth as an author. His story-telling is somewhat softer, less blunt -- without losing any of it's edge or gravity. The story is fascinating and kept me hooked until the end.
The books come with a free extra lesson in central European history on top, I learned so much about the Hussian wars, military history, how people imagined magic in the 1400s, ... I spent quite some time looking up the names, grimoires, places on Wikipedia, and discovered a whole fascinating world that I had no clue about. You can read the books without any of that for sure, and pretend it's just a fantasy series. But it's so much more than that.
I had no trouble accepting that characters and their development are not at the heart of the author's attention, that between the dozens of well-researched factoids, there are some inaccuracies around the historic context (people find a book that really only was written 200 years later), ... none of that took away from the enjoyment of reading this the slightest.
As a last note: I was "reading" these by listening, through Audible, in German language.
Elmar Börger's voice was the cherry on top for me. He did an absolutely fantastic job, with the voices, accents... I loved every bit of it.
Chances are not bad that I'll even revisit these books some day.
Fully recommended.
June 14, 2024
Świetne dwa tomy, końcówka wyraźnie gorsza. Warto to przeczytać i "enjoy the process" wiedząc, że koniec raczej rozczaruje - podobnie jak z oglądaniem GoTa.
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