Saturnin
Zdeněk Jirotka
Machine-translated from Czech. Read the original
Some books I reread every autumn, and Saturnin is one of them. ☕📚
The narrator hires a manservant who turns out to be a master of quiet chaos, and an ordinary summer at grandfather’s house becomes a string of disasters, floods and perfectly polite insults. Aunt Kateřina and her son Milouš are among the best literary adversaries I know.
What still delights me? The language. Jirotka writes dryly, with a gentlemanly distance, and every sentence lands a punchline. The book is almost a hundred years old and I still laugh out loud on the tram.
Rating: 5/5 ⭐ If you haven’t read Saturnin yet, it’s high time.
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