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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:39:18 EDT
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- From: Hugh Agnew <AGNEWHL@GWUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Books and Films Suggestions
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- Kamil's additions to my additions made me want to add some more...
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- We didn't even mention Hasek! But for translations of Good Soldier
- Svejk, I think the only one in the running anymore is Cecil Parrot's.
- In general for the literature and culture of the region, I think Marcie
- and anyone else interested should look for a yearbook called _Cross
- Currents_, once published by the Michigan Slavic Department and now
- brought out by Yale University Press. There are currently 11 volumes out,
- each includes both criticism and translations of literature, film, and
- culture and cultural history in general.
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- I should mention that the films I listed were all (I think) available
- on VHS videocassette with English subtitles -- which somewhat shortens
- the list of available movies. I think the medieval ones Kamil was thinking
- about might have been "Udoli vcel" (Valley of the Bees) and "Psi hlavy"
- (Dog's heads) -- I'm going by memory on the titles here, so I could be
- off slightly. Of course, there was the very interesting trilogy of films
- on Czech history by Otakar Vavra, reflecting the distorted Communist version
- of the Czech nationalist view of the past, including "Jan Hus," "Jan Zizka"
- and "Temno".
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- Among Hungarian directors I didn't include first time round, there's
- Miklos Jancso, whose highly personal vision colours films like "Red and
- White", "Hungarian Rhapsody", "Roundup" and so on. Or what about Andras
- Kovacs's "Cold Days"? From Juraj Jakubisko, I'd like to recommend especially
- "Birds, Orphans and Fools".
-