Summer of Caprice

Whimsical Summer is a humorous novel by Vladislav Vančura from 1926, which evokes an atmosphere of good humour and laughter, the humour here is more indulgent than offensive. Vančur succeeded in capturing the peaceful atmosphere of a small Czech town with poetic language and his characteristic play with words and metaphors. And herein lies the comedy of the story: between the sublimity of the language of the narrator and the heroes of the story and the mundanity of their debates. < br> Vančur's Whimsical Summer is often considered untranslatable. This is related both to the linguistic means by which the author creates his narrative style and to the evolution of the context in which the book has been set for eighty years. < br> Version without illustrations.