The Egg and I in the Czech Republic

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       The Egg and I in the Czech Republic 

       At Radio Prague International Ruth Fraňková reports on literary theorist Jiří Trávníček's new book, Betty a my, exploring: The Egg and I: Why is 1945 US bestseller topping Czech readers' lists ? 
       The enduring popularity of Betty MacDonald's book -- Trávníček notes that repeated studies have found her to be: "the most popular and most read author in Czechia" -- is indeed something of a headscratcher. But it's apparently been the case for a while -- a phenomenon that even found mention in Philip Roth's The Prague Orgy, as noted in the piece.  
       See also the Host publicity page for Trávníček's book -- and I hope we'll get to see this in English at some point; it sounds like a fascinating local-reading/publishing study. 

“Along with teaching us that lamb must be cooked with garlic and that a lady never scratches her head or spits, my mother taught my sisters and me that it is a wife's bounden duty to see that her husband is happy in his work.

"First make sure that your husband is doing the kind of work he enjoys and is best fitted for and then cheerfully accept whatever it entails. If you marry a doctor, don't whine because he doesn't keep the hours of a shoe clerk, and by the same token if you marry a shoe clerk, don't complain because he doesn't make as much money as a doctor. Be satisfied that he works regular hours," Mother told us…

“But I still think that Betty MacDonald offered Czech readers something else. It was the way she described American reality in the 1930s, specifically the kind of technologies she had on the farm.

“The readers would wonder: Look what they had in the 1930s. We don’t have that even today, in the 1970s and 80s.”

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