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Originally published 1942 | 4.5/5 Goodreads Publication date 1942 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar We Were a Handful, Tales of the little Quarter, The Cremator, The Blissful Years of Lousy Liv, Krysař | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Saturnin is a 1942 humorous novel by Zdeněk Jirotka, with characters such as the dangerous servant Saturnin, the annoying Aunt Kateřina and her son Milouš, Uncle František, Doctor Vlach, and the narrator's grandfather.
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The book is probably the best work of Zdeněk Jirotka. This novel is strongly inspired by work of English authors, esp. Jerome K. Jerome and by novels and short stories by English writer P. G. Wodehouse which features the character of the servant Jeeves. It has been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Estonian and Latvian. Foreign language versions are issued by Charles University's publisher Karolinum.
Film, television, and theatrical adaptations
The basic storyline of this novel has been filmed as Saturnin, which was then split into a 4-part series and broadcast on Czech television. The servant Saturnin was played by Oldřich Vízner.