Baťa – Wenceslas square

Václavské nám. 6
Jiří Dvořák

In 1929 the successful company T. & A. Bata opened the new department store “Dum sluzeb” in the Wenceslas Square as the existing shoe shop became insufficient due to the large number of customers. Tonight literature will enter here…

Jean Echenoz (France): Courir

Translation: Jovanka Šotolová, Mladá fronta 2009

The latest novel of one of the most recognised French authors of the day deals with the life and sporting career of Emil Zátopek, who was employed with the Baťa company between 1937-1945. Once again Echenoz displays a remarkable talent for lingustically playfull and humorous texts. The Czech reader will surely appreciate the exact description of the life then.

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