mahdi reviewed Led by Jacek Dukaj
zamrzlo?/zamrzlo!
4 stars
Prekladatelskej pocin desetileti, opravdu dobry. Pribeh samotnej se odehrava v alternativni minulosti, kdy cast Evropy zamrzla (na led) s cimz "zamrzly" i nektery zmeny/revoluce. Nicmene to neni az tak podstany jako přítuhy, filozofovani a vlastne to je pribeh o mozna prebujele fantazii a precenovani vlastnich cinu na chod dejin. Nikola Tesla v akci jako bonus. Jen pro otrle (kvuli rozsahu, fakt tam neni jedinej obrazek a skoro 1000 popsanych stran velkyho formatu).
Obviously starting with the fact book almost broke my arms weighting 1499g ... and then first 300 pages somewhere in frozen Poland and in the train to Sibeeria were kinda tooooo long.
Though I admit I enjoyed remaining 600+ pages (no pics). I also totally admire people who translated it and got awarded for it eventually (despite no hopes other then got a paper for it).
Would I read it again? Definitely NO. Was it worth? Definitely YES. …
Prekladatelskej pocin desetileti, opravdu dobry. Pribeh samotnej se odehrava v alternativni minulosti, kdy cast Evropy zamrzla (na led) s cimz "zamrzly" i nektery zmeny/revoluce. Nicmene to neni az tak podstany jako přítuhy, filozofovani a vlastne to je pribeh o mozna prebujele fantazii a precenovani vlastnich cinu na chod dejin. Nikola Tesla v akci jako bonus. Jen pro otrle (kvuli rozsahu, fakt tam neni jedinej obrazek a skoro 1000 popsanych stran velkyho formatu).
Obviously starting with the fact book almost broke my arms weighting 1499g ... and then first 300 pages somewhere in frozen Poland and in the train to Sibeeria were kinda tooooo long.
Though I admit I enjoyed remaining 600+ pages (no pics). I also totally admire people who translated it and got awarded for it eventually (despite no hopes other then got a paper for it).
Would I read it again? Definitely NO. Was it worth? Definitely YES. I love all those small touch ups which were partly Dukaj and partly lovely Czech translation. Kudos to all who suffered making it digestible for me :-P