Saturnin by Zdenek Jirotka
A novel featuring Saturnin, a 'gentleman's gentleman' who obviously owes a debt to Wodehouse's beloved Jeeves, who wages a constant battle to protect his master from romantic disaster and intrusive relatives, such as Aunt Catherine, the 'Prancing Dictionary of Slavic Proverbs'.
"At a time when Czechoslovakia was deep in the grip of the Nazi occupation, one form of resistance was to put the world created by invasion out of your mind and create anotherWas it, perhaps, a Wodehousian influence-a reluctance to acknowledge the evil of the outside world?"-Elin Murphy, Wooster Sauce, the Journal of the P. G. Wodehouse Society "A delicious dry humour and an imaginative flair that makes it much more than just the 'Czech Jeeves.' Owing more to Jerome K. Jerome than to P. G. Wodehouse, the writing is rich in homespun wisdom and casual asides that take on a life of their own, leading the reader up charming byways of irrelevance.... A surprising number of belly-laughs for a novel that is more than half a century old." -Adam Preston, Times Literary Supplement"
Zdenek Jirotka (1911-2003) is the author of radio plays, novels, and short stories. Mark Adrian Corner is a part-time lecturer at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel. He is the author or translator of several books.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9788024606835 |
| ISBN 10 | 8024606836 |
| Title | Saturnin |
| Author | Zdenek Jirotka |
| Series | Modern Czech Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic |
| Year published | 2006-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 263 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |