Hľadanie: The Impossible Has Happened EN
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Říká se, že člověk zmoudří a porozumí sám sobě teprve k stáru – jinými slovy, že v pozdějším věku najde sám sebe. Co si má ale hlavní hrdina počít ve chvíli, kdy sám sebe najde doslova?
Ano, emeritního docenta bohemistiky Igora Juráška by ani v nejčernějším snu nenapadlo, že když se po mnoha desetiletích vydá do městečka Staré Rasošky, kde kdysi začínal své učitelské povolání, nalezne tam za živým plotem mrtvolu… sebe sama! Po prvotním šoku jde coby zákona dbalý muž ohlásit nález na místní policejní stanici. Tak zapeklitý případ ovšem rychle směřuje do nejvyšších policejních pater. Podezřelý (stejně jako „válka s Turkem“) musí být, takže se jím stává sám nešťastný nálezce – a to, že si policisté lámou hlavu, z čeho jej vlastně podezírat, jen zvyšuje jejich nerudnost a Juráškovu nejistotu.
Starý pán, pronásledovaný výčitkami svědomí vůči své oddané manželce Hedvice, jíž – mírně řečeno – nebyl vždy zcela věrný, vůči celé plejádě dalších žen, jimž nedokázal odolat, a nakonec i vůči několika kolegům či přátelům, jejichž cestě na onen svět neuměl (jak sám sebe obviňuje) zabránit, se uchýlí k rekapitulaci vlastního života. Resumé je neradostné – avšak jak tomu u Čepelky-prozaika bývá, ani tentokrát nebudeme jen přemýšlet či nedejbože truchlit, ale pobavíme se nad osudy muže, kterého autor v myšlenkách provádí od dětství za protektorátu až do současného stáří. Dějinné i nicotné události, avantýry i láska, rovná záda (méně často) či „důstojný“ únik před zodpovědností (to mnohem častěji) – smějte se, milí čtenáři, ale neříkejte, že jste se leckde nepoznali…
Konec pak překvapí i toho, kdo se po celou dobu domníval, že přijde nějaké buď banální, nebo naopak zcela nadpozemské vysvětlení. Ostatně i v našich životech je tomu podobně – extrémům se (naštěstí) většinou vyhýbají, byť i ta „zlatá střední cesta“ umí být zatraceně klikatá a trnitá a vést bůhvíkam. Nás ale stránkami této někdy zábavné, jindy zádumčivé, ale bezesporu čtivé a nevšední novely provází autor, kterému nic lidského není cizí a jenž dokáže své literární postavy pozorovat a vykreslit jako málokdo.
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Zkušení spisovatelé a cestovatelé Otomar Dvořák a Josef Pepson Snětivý vás už podruhé společně zvou na cestu. Tentokrát (až na výjimky) „jen“ na území hlavního města Prahy, jež je zdánlivě dopodrobna prozkoumané a popsané. Oba Prahu milují, pobývají v ní a dlouhodobě se její historií a památkami zabývají – a přesto i je překvapilo, kolik toho v tomto ohledu ještě nabízí… a skrývá.
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Autoři záměrně opominuli jen Pražský hrad a Vyšehrad coby místa dostatečně popsaná v jiných publikacích. A budou velmi rádi, pokud s touto knihou (či jen s informacemi z ní vyčtenými ve vaší paměti) vyrazíte do ulic naší metropole. Odměnou vám budou nečekané nálezy a nezapomenutelné momenty.
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Lacná kniha The Little Book of Vargas (-90%)
Alberto Vargas took over Esquire magazine's monthly pin-up post in late 1940. By 1942, when the U.S. joined the war, he had more than a million ardent fans who carried his pin-ups in backpacks and duffel bags as reminders of the American girls they'd left behind. When Esquire was charged with obscenity over a particularly spicy pin-up the military stepped in the fight for The Varga Girl, declaring her necessary for morale. Today these wartime pin-ups are the most collectible of Vargas' work, and we 've collected them all in this compact, affordable 192-page volume.
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