Czech Folk Tales
Language: English
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014
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2 Page Preface from 1917, 4 Page Introduction, B/W Illustrations.
Seller Inventory # 002257
- Title
- Czech Folk Tales
- Author
- Baudis, Josef
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1502424770
- ISBN 13
- 9781502424778
- Edition
- Reprint
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
-"The Yale Review"
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From the Introduction:
..".As for their humour, the Czechs have a natural tendency to satire. The best works in Old Czech literature are satires, and in modern times one of the most brilliant of Czech politicians, Karel Havlicek, was also the greatest Czech satirist. This spirit may also be seen in the present collection; but in every case the story-teller, instead of assuming the attitude of the morality preacher or of indulging in theatrical invective against the wickedness of the times, rests content with a good-humoured gibe at the folly of the world, at the frailty of his fellow-men, and, it may be, at his own.
"These two traits are inherent in the nature of the Czech people; and those who know their love of such tales and of the literature which has grown out of them, can realize their search for a haven of refuge from the cruel present and their fond dream-pictures of a land where all was good, where at last everything was bound to end well, where truth and justice at last had conquered. Alas! to the victims of Habsburg rule and Austrian bayonets the bare possibility seemed utterly excluded. And yet why should they not dream of such a land? "Amo quia absurdum! " But at the very moment their humorous "ego" could not suppress a sneer. Yes, even in that wonderland which their fancy painted are foolish kings, ever prone to break their word: even there people are bad and stupid! But our tale says that the bad were vanquished and the foolish put to shame: let, then, the tale be told! And even as he tells it, his heart nurses the inward hope that the foreign tyrants who oppress him may one day be vanquished and annihilated.
"That such were the wishes of the Czech people, the Great War has shown. They have proved by their deeds their love of freedom; and to-day Czechs are fighting bravely in every Allied army and in their own national units formed in Russia, May their Austrian oppressors be brought to the ground, and may Bohemia regain the freedom for which she has longed for three centuries!
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