PUBLISHED by ROMARIN<\/strong> Suzanne RENAUD, Bohuslav REYNEK : Lettres \u00e0 Annette \u2013 Dopisy Annette<\/em><\/strong> [Letters to Annette<\/em>]<\/p>\n Bilingual critical edition in French and Czech. Format 12,5 x 19 cm. In the 1960s, after a period of destitution and isolation on their Petrkov farmstead, which had become a kolkhoz, Suzanne Renaud and Bohuslav Reynek welcomed many visitors who had come to see the engraver\u2019s art. Faithful friends they had met in Dauphin\u00e9 between the wars came from France. In 1963 \u201cAnnette\u201d, a young woman from Grenoble, spent the month of September in Petrkov. \u201cThe impulse that made her drive across so many kilometres did not only please the poet; for his wife it was a drop of living water that fell from the sky. [\u2026] [Thirty years later] she founded the \u2018Romarin\u2013Les Amis de Suzanne Renaud et Bohuslav Reynek\u2019 association in Grenoble.\u201d (Ji\u0159\u00ed \u0160er\u00fdch, Il y a bien longtemps<\/em>).<\/p>\n Excerpts “Our hospitality is that which can be offered by impoverished people in a once beautiful but now dilapidated house, being themselves old and tired, without any household help, which means that it has many shortcomings and that you will have to bring a good deal of indulgence and understanding. In return, we will offer you some new experiences, some of which at least will be interesting, and the charm of a country very different from ours.” “The shadows lengthen and the shadows of the shadows. One is more and more astonished, becomes almost mute. Silence plunges its fingers in the winter mist, draws there I do not know what. The inner fire does not go out, throws small flames and burns, and burns – hard. If you are happy, say thank you. I wish you were. Here you are loved as always. This cannot change, it is for eternity.” \n*The book Lettres \u00e0 Annette \/ Dopisy Annette<\/em> will be available for purchase online on the “Editorial Catalogue” page of the site (https:\/\/renaud-reynek.com\/catalogue-editorial\/) from 2 October 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the 1960s, after a period of destitution and isolation on their Petrkov farmstead, which had become a kolkhoz, Suzanne Renaud and Bohuslav Reynek [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,268,128,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bohuslav-reynek-en","category-j-pojer","category-publishing-house-romarin","category-suzanne-renaud-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n28 september 2021*<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTranslated from the French by Dagmar and Franti\u0161ek Halas.
\nForeword by Annick Auzimour.
\nColor illustrations: two workss by Bohuslav Reynek, photographies.
\nBlack and white illustrations within the text: photographies by Daniel Reynek,
\nJi\u0159\u00ed \u0160koch, Pavel Jasansk\u00fd, Pavel \u0160indel\u00e1\u0159, Annick Roy.
\nPublished with support of the Czech Republic\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
\nand the Renaud-Reynek Endowment Fund (France).<\/p>\n
\n260 pages. Softbound, illustrated cover.
\nISBN 2\u2013910544-20-6
\nPrice 10 \u20ac<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>“It was November-December, it rained almost continuously, a soft, blackish rain. There were small clearings where you could go out and pick blackberries in the brambles on the moor. To find chestnuts but all hollow. See pretty black and white cows in the broom. I lived in a small hotel that had a plaque indicating that G. Flaubert had stayed there. In the evenings I read poems in the company of rats that came out of the walls and the floor.”
\n(Bohuslav Reynek, August 9, 1963)<\/span><\/p>\n
\n(Suzanne Renaud, August 12, 1963)<\/span><\/p>\n
\n(Bohuslav Reynek, December 30, 1969)<\/span><\/p>\n