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Mysterious book

 
 
D1Doris
 
Reply Sun 23 Apr, 2006 01:14 pm
I was in London last week and I bought a book for 30 p. It's in Czech I think and it looks like a fairy tale book, that's why I bought it.

It's called "O hloupém Ivanovi a chytré Jelene". There's a little 'v' on the last 'e', but I don't know how to do that on this keyboard.

Anyway, does anyone know what it means/speak Czech?

These are the contents, it might help to judge if it really is a fairy tale book or not:

OBSAH (I guess that means contents)

Kouselný prsten 7
Voják a carevna 26
Chytrá vnucka 37 (again, there's a 'v' on the 'c' in vnucka)
O hloupém ivanovi
A chytré jelene 46 (with a 'v' on the last 'e')
Bezrucka 62 ('v' on the 'c')
Finist - Jasný sokol 79
Jak voják vsechny zmámil 102 ('v' on 's' of vsechny)

I hope someone will be able to help me.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 23 Apr, 2006 01:50 pm
Some info about the author here (with a link to an English site) - nothing about the book yet, only in Czech. Crying or Very sad

Andrej Platonov: O hloupém Ivanovi a chytré Jeleně. Přeložila Anna Nováková, Albatros, Praha 1980, 112 s.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 23 Apr, 2006 01:54 pm
Since A2K can't Czech, too - here's the book title as a pic:

http://i3.tinypic.com/w9veqc.jpg

(copied from his biography)
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D1Doris
 
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Reply Mon 24 Apr, 2006 08:25 am
That's the one, thanks for searching Walter! You even got me some information in Dutch, very nice. The writer turns out to be Russian Confused

Don't we have any Czechs on the board yet?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 24 Apr, 2006 08:29 am
We have a Slovak lady, Dag, who might be able to help you, if she sees this topic. I could not say if she can read Czech, but she is old enough (not that very old at all, really) to remember Czechoslovakia.
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D1Doris
 
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Reply Mon 24 Apr, 2006 08:34 am
Excellent, there's still hope!
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Mon 24 Apr, 2006 12:36 pm
Re: Mysterious book
D1Doris wrote:
I was in London last week and I bought a book for 30 p. It's in Czech I think and it looks like a fairy tale book, that's why I bought it.

It's called "O hloupém Ivanovi a chytré Jelene". There's a little 'v' on the last 'e', but I don't know how to do that on this keyboard.

Anyway, does anyone know what it means/speak Czech?

These are the contents, it might help to judge if it really is a fairy tale book or not:

OBSAH (I guess that means contents)

Kouselný prsten 7
Voják a carevna 26
Chytrá vnucka 37 (again, there's a 'v' on the 'c' in vnucka)
O hloupém ivanovi
A chytré jelene 46 (with a 'v' on the last 'e')
Bezrucka 62 ('v' on the 'c')
Finist - Jasný sokol 79
Jak voják vsechny zmámil 102 ('v' on 's' of vsechny)

I hope someone will be able to help me.



It is a collection of Russian fairy tales, it seems. "Finist, the bright eagle" is a classic that has been filmed and every generation saw it millions of times. Christmas time classic.
The title of the book: "About stupid Ivan and smart Jelena"

The individual fairy tales:
Magic ring
Soldier and the queen
Clever granddaughter
About stupid Ivan
About smart Jelena
Armless girl
Finist - the bright eagle
How a soldier mesmerized everybody


Hope that helps. Whatcha gonna do with the book?
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D1Doris
 
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Reply Tue 25 Apr, 2006 01:01 pm
That's great! I collect fairy tale and mythology books and I was really hoping this would be one.

Thank you VERY much for the translation!

What am I gonna do with the book... well, I'm gonna keep it, that's for sure and then hopefully one day I'll be able to read it. I'm more or less planning on spending the rest of my life learning languages and it's going well so far, so we'll see when I have time to learn Czech. Or maybe I'll meet someone who is willing to read it for me.
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