Gardener's Year (Paperback: Modern Library: 144 pages)
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| Illustrated by: | Josef Capek |
| Author: | Karel Capek, Capek Karel |
| Introduction by: | Verlyn Klinkenborg |
| Edited by: | Michael Pollan |
| Format: | Paperback: Modern Library: 144 pages. |
| Publisher: | Modern Library (02/01/2002) |
| ISBN: | 0375759484 |
| ISBN13: | 9780375759482 |
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Pro Reviews: Gardener's Year
[A] work of great charm and considerable subtlety which requires no more of the reader than a willingness to agree that it is a pleasant thing to own and cultivate a small patch of ground....In contrast to the darkness of [Kapek's] plays, this little book offers a message of hope to the country which the brothers loved so much.
The humour of Capek's book would alone distinguish it from similarly titled volumes on sale at garden centres....As with most of Capek's writings, the humour of THE GARDENER'S YEAR combines with seriousness of purpose. Had it been written ten or twenty years later, the book would surely have been received as a metaphor for resistance to Nazi or Stalinist oppression: with the sturdy gardener symbolic of the individual who will not bow down....
Publisher Notes: Gardener's Year
- From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener's life. First published in Prague in 1929, "The Gardener's Year" combines a richly comic portrait of life in the garden, narrated month by month, with a series of delightful illustrations by the author's older brother and collaborator, Josef. Capek's gardeners--all too human, despite their lofty aspirations--often look the fool, whether they be found sopping wet, victims of the cobralike water hose, or hunched over, hands immersed in the soil, "presenting their rumps to the splendid azure sky." In their repeated folly, Capek gives us not only cause for laughter but also, in the end, "testimony of the imperishable and miraculous optimism of the human race."
This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a "New York Times" editorialist and the author of "Making Hay" and "The Last Fine Time."
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