The Gardener's Year (Paperback: 201 pages)
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| Illustrator: | Josef Capek |
| Illustrated by: | Josef Capek |
| Author: | Karel Capek, Bel (FWD) Mooney |
| Translated by: | Geoffrey Newsome |
| Translator: | Geoffrey Newsome |
| Format: | Paperback: 201 pages. |
| Publisher: | Continuum Intl Pub Group (11/30/2005) |
| ISBN: | 0826486258 |
| ISBN13: | 9780826486257 |
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Pro Reviews: The 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: The Gardener's Year
- The Czech writer Karel Capek (1890-1938) was renowned for his satirical play R.U.R., in which he coined the word "robot" (from the Czech word for "peasant")--a blistering attack on technology in the service of regimentation. Perhaps surprisingly, Capek was also a dedicated gardener. In THE GARDENER'S YEAR, his classic, month-by-month walk through the garden, Capek vividly communicates the delight he took in digging in the soil and growing things--and the often comical frustrations he found there as well. First published in Prague in 1929, THE GARDENER'S YEAR is illustrated with witty little line drawings by his brother Josef, with whom he built a house and planted a garden, that bring Capek's humorous prose even further to life.
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