{"id":559,"date":"2024-06-06T14:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/?p=559"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:40:44","slug":"a-scrupulous-account-of-post-prague-spring-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/a-scrupulous-account-of-post-prague-spring-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scrupulous Account of Post\u2013Prague Spring Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy turns cunning and brutally honest, Slovak literary man Jan Rozner\u2019s fictionalized autobiography also works as a depiction of his times,\u201d Siegfried Mortkowitz wrote about the book <em>Seven Days to the Funeral<\/em> by Jan Rozner, translated from the Slovak into English by Julia and Peter Sherwood and published by Karolinum Press in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><em>Seven Days to the Funeral<\/em> is the fictionalised memoir of J\u00e1n Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozner and his wife Zora Jesensk\u00e1 were champions of the Prague Spring and were blacklisted after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. When Jesensk\u00e1 died in 1972, her funeral became a political event and attendees faced recriminations.<\/p>\n<p>As Siegfried Mortkowitz continues:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In the indispensable afterword, Ivana Taranenkova quotes Rozner\u2019s Slovak publisher as saying that he wanted \u201c \u2018to write a Joycean novel, without paragraph breaks, comprised of long sentences, a continuous narrative.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/tol.org\/client\/article\/a-scrupulous-account-of-post-prague-spring-life.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawIQCaFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSrtCHWGHRBvyN_9Sy2oX6eCiYr2OQGYmDdDykaEuv3_hKv4RiMOHxQt-w_aem_PLQoWZYRNWSTM0_CzT28Ig\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/karolinum.cz\/en\/books\/rozner-seven-days-to-the-funeral-29502\"><em>Seven Days to the Funeral<\/em><\/a>, by Jan Rozner. Translated from the Slovak by Julia and Peter Sherwood. Karolinum Press, 2024. 488 pages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy turns cunning and brutally honest, Slovak literary man Jan Rozner\u2019s fictionalized autobiography also works as a depiction of his times,\u201d Siegfried Mortkowitz wrote about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[34,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uslit.sav.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}