Budi Hamlet, pane Hamlete!

From the Prague Spring of 1968 to Croatia's war of 1991, the Czech actor František chases his ideal stage, the Lovrijenac fortress in Dubrovnik, and the love he found there, running into one political and professional obstacle after another while his dreams stay out of reach. Subtitled "a heart-novel from one war and one revolution", this darkly comic debut refuses to make the war solemn, to hunt for great truths or to create heroes. Instead it takes an old-fashioned, romantic view of war, love and the Theatre, of imagination and devotion to creation, drawing on the author's long experience of the stage.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

326 pages in the original

Genres

Love, War, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, Croatia, 1968–1991

First published

2012 by AGM

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9789531744201 (original)