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Zlatí úhoři
Author: Ota Pavel
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Zlatí úhoři connects a river landscape with Ota Pavel's family memories. Individual stories bring together childhood, wartime experience, and later returns, keeping nature and loved ones closely intertwined.
Zlatí úhoři is Ota Pavel's short-story collection linking personal memory, family stories, the landscape around the Berounka River, and the experience of World War II. His father Leo Popper and Mr. Prošek are important figures in these recollections, while the river, fish, and Branov provide a vivid backdrop. The book moves from childhood experiences through the family's more tragic wartime fate to the adult narrator's later returns to the places of his youth.
Book information
- Author
- Ota Pavel
- Publisher
- Albatros Media a.s.
- Imprint
- Palmknihy
- Formát
- E-book
- Language
- Czech
- Genre
- klasická literatúra, poviedky, autobiografická próza
- ISBN
- 978-80-748-6063-8
- Publication date
- 1. January 2014
- Pages
- 109
- E-book formats
- EPUB (ISBN 978-80-748-6063-8) · PDF (ISBN 978-80-748-6065-2) · MOBI (ISBN 978-80-748-6064-5)
What is Zlatí úhoři about?
According to the supplier, the collection has three thematic sections. In the first, Ota Pavel returns to childhood in Branov by the Berounka, where the river, fishing, family, and local people are central. The second introduces a much more serious dimension, addressing the fate of his father and brothers under Nazi persecution and their deportation to a concentration camp. The third follows the adult Ota Pavel back to his childhood landscape and memories of the people who shaped it. Nature and fishing are more than scenery: they are part of family memory, a sense of home, and the narrator's way of preserving the past. The collection combines affectionate reminiscence with a historical experience that profoundly affected the author's family.
Themes and motifs
Childhood and memory
The narrator revisits the people, places, and experiences that shaped his childhood.
Family
Memories of his father Leo Popper, his brothers, and other loved ones play an important role.
The Berounka and nature
The river, fish, and landscape around Branov are central to the atmosphere and the author's memories.
War and persecution
Part of the book addresses Nazi persecution and the war's impact on the author's family.
Returning
The adult narrator revisits childhood places, reconnecting through them with people and events from the past.
Setting
Branov and the landscape along the Berounka River are prominent settings; the Nazi occupation and World War II provide another historical layer.
Main characters
Ota Pavel
The narrator and autobiographical figure revisiting his childhood, family, and later returns to the Berounka.
Leo Popper
The author's father, a vivid figure in family memories, described by the supplier as a dreamer and adventurer.
Prošek
A figure associated with the Berounka setting and the author's childhood memories.
Who is this book for?
For readers of Czech literary classics, autobiographical fiction, and stories of family, childhood, nature, and memory, as well as those interested in Czech Jewish families' personal experiences during World War II.
Book context
Zlatí úhoři belongs to Ota Pavel's prose rooted in autobiographical memory, family stories, and the Berounka landscape. The collection also inspired the Czechoslovak television film Zlatí úhoři, directed by Karel Kachyňa.
Adaptations
Zlatí úhoři
Otázky o knihe
What is Zlatí úhoři about?
The collection revisits Ota Pavel's childhood by the Berounka, his family, fishing, his loved ones' wartime experiences, and later returns to childhood places.
Who wrote Zlatí úhoři?
The author is Czech writer Ota Pavel.
How many pages does the e-book have?
The supplier lists 109 pages.
Which formats are available?
The supplier lists EPUB, PDF, and MOBI.
Was Zlatí úhoři adapted for film?
Yes. Filmový přehled lists the 1979 television film Zlatí úhoři, directed by Karel Kachyňa and based on Ota Pavel's collection of the same name.
Where are the stories set?
Branov and the landscape along the Berounka, associated with the author's childhood and family memories, are important settings.
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