Když Florian obdržel od svého přítele Žvanila pozvání na žvanilovskou výroční slavnost, vydal se podruhé do Říše duchů. Florian je čestným hostem na této slavnosti, a i kvůli němu se sem sjíždějí hosté ze všech částí Říše duchů; konečně Florian přece osvobodil močál od příšerných jezdců a vlkodlaků. Druhým čestným hostem je proslulý kouzelník Xarthos, tajemstvím obestřený muž, který, jak se obecně soudí, patří v Říši duchů mezi „dobré“. Avšak soutěž, ke které Xarthos Floriana vyzve, se záhy změní v souboj na život a na smrt. Jedno je jasné: Xarthos není ve skutečnosti takový dobrák, za jakého se vždycky vydával. Je to čaroděj sloužící zlu, jež si žádá Florianovu smrt. A Florian během zápasu odhaluje Xarthosovo děsivé tajemství…
Babičky jsou už takové – nesnášejí komiksy, a ty hororové už vůbec ne. Proto si Florian jeden ze svých sešitů schová u paty starého keltského kříže – a zažije ohromné překvapení, když si ho chce vzít nazpět: sešit je pryč zato však Floriana cosi chytne za ruku a stáhne ho dolů. Tak se dostává Florian do světa duchů a s úžasem hledí na podivného tvora, který ho tam stáhl. Ale taky Žvanil, jak si tento tvor říká, je celkem slušně zaražen. Oba se však rychle spřátelí a Florianovi začíná skvělé dobrodružství…
A Gentleman's true story; Yorkshire in 1937; serving in the British Army; to fighting with Dementia
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The autobiography vividly recounts Peter Horn's upbringing in a quaint Yorkshire village, a stark contrast to the modern landscape. He reflects on a time when horses and carts were commonplace and pigs roamed public spaces. Set against the backdrop of a nation transitioning from its imperial past, Horn explores the limited opportunities available in a region reliant on declining industries like woollen mills and farming, providing a nostalgic glimpse into a bygone era.
The modern Bangla poetry began with poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta who was born in Bangladesh. However, the main stream of Bangla poetry surfaces with Nobel laureate Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. He has created an enormous world of creativity in poetry as well as stories, novels, prose, art and memorable songs. The people of West Bengal of India and Bangladesh are still following the paths of creativity in line with his works. Another great poet of Bangla literature was Kazi Nazrul Islam, who has also left behind a treasure of creativity in the field of writing poetry, prose, novels, short stories and memorable songs. After them five great poets have evolved in the thirties. These poets were Jibanananda Das, Shudhindranath Dutta, Buddhadev Bose, Vishnu Dey and Amiya Chakkravarty. Each of them created and established their own different style and their specific literary world. The main contribution they made was to bring foreign literature into the country by translating into Bangla particularly European literature. Among those five poets Jibanananda Das opened a new door of modern poetry depicting nature. Jibanananda Das was arguably the most important Bengali poet after Rabindranath Tagore, undoubtedly one of the leading modern poets of Bengal, and certainly one of the greatest Bengali poets of all times. Nevertheless, he is a poet who is hardly known outside the West Bengal and Bangladesh. Poet Jasimuddin and Poet Farruque Ahmed had created a different dimension in modern Bangla poetry. Poet Jasimuddin had taken the theme from his native land, on the other hand, poet Farruque Ahmed embraced the Islamic heritage as a subject in his poetry. Poets of the fifties of Bangladesh introduced elements of modernity as conceived in the West in Bangla poetry in Bangladesh. It is through the masterly rendering of the French poet Baudelaire's poetry in Bangla by Buddhadev Bose that Bangladeshi poets of fifties have been venured into the realm of modern European poetry. They are also profoundly influenced by the works of the German poet Rilke, the English poets W B Yeats and T S Eliot, without compromising their own originality and individual characteristics. Bangla poetry has been nurtured more in Bangladesh than in West Bengal of India. This is because their first language being Bangla and the valiant Bangalees sacrificed their lives for their mother tongue during the language movement in 1952. The commemoration of 21st February as the Bangla Language Day is one of the most solemn and honourable occasions in Bangladesh. The liberation war in 1971, where three million people gave their lives for the country, was the most significant period for Bangla literature. The new literature with new voices from a newly emerged country flourished only from then on. New Bangla poetry is moving forward along with its traditionalism and modernism although many have practiced post modernism styles. In this anthology only twenty five contemporary poets are represented with 100 poems. A good number of poets could not be included mainly due to non-availability of proper translations. Hopefully, in the next edition we will try to include them. We are indebted to the literary scholars Dr Peter Horn and Dr Anette Horn who edited this book in their busy schedule. We are also grateful to Poet Tobias Burghardt and Poet Jona Burghardt to help us publish this anthology in Stuttgart, Germany.
The essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. Works by J. M. Coetzee, Njabulo Ndebele, Seitlhlamo Motsapi and more are read against this changing social and political landscape.
