An Ordinary Life - by Karel Čapek

Dear Book Club friends

In March we will meet to discuss the book "An ordinary life" by Karel Čapek, the third of three short stories collected in the book "Three Novels".

Important note for first-time attendees: if you decide to attend, the group expects you to have read the book and present your opinion.

Here a short description:
At the end of a quiet and industrious life a station master decides to write his autobiography. At first all goes well and the story is smooth and delightful. But the author would not be Karel Capek if he left it at that. In the middle of his work the honest station master discovers to his horror that his apparently respectable and conventional life contains treacherous undercurrents. As a result of this the autobiography threatens to blow up in a Freudian cataclysm. The author's sanity and humanity, however, manage to tame the demons and spread peace over the troubled waters. The book is the third part of a trilogy of which the first was HORDUBAL and the second METEOR. The unity of these books is purely ideological, and their story is not continuous.

If you are unable to participate, kindly cancel your attendance so that others can join. No-shows from past activities are tracked.