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After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later 1933 he graduated from building technical school in hradec kralove. Saturnin is a 1942 humorous novel by zdenek jirotka, with characters such as the dangerous servant saturnin, the annoying aunt katerina and her son milous, uncle frantisek, doctor vlach, and the narrators grandfather. Saturnin, a comic tale of a young man whose life is transformed by a mischievous gentlemans gentleman, has a delicious dry humour and an imaginative flair that makes it much more than just the czech jeeves. In the years since, the novel has been hailed as a classic of czech literature, and this translation makes it available to englishlanguage readers for the first timewhich is entirely appropriate, for. Saturnin is a 1942 humorous novel by zdenek jirotka, with characters like the dangerous servant saturnin, the annoying aunt katerina and her son milous, uncle frantisek, doctor vlach, and the narrators grandfather. Zdenek jirotka was born in ostrava on january 7, 1911 and died in prague on april 12, 2003.
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