The stories included in the book «A Dog’s Life» are inspired by war and saturated with war. Ashkenazy writes about a man going through a war, and not only: among the main characters are the shepherd Brut, the dachshund Zizi, the Yarda gelding. Each of the characters has its own character and its own destiny. Fate connected with the war. Brutus, specially trained to poison camp prisoners, suddenly recognizes his former mistress under the hated striped robe …
“The boy looked with his eyes wide open, like the windows of a house in which someone died” — one of my acquaintances remembered this phrase of Ludvik Ashkenazy, having read translated stories of the Czech writer back in Soviet times. And in it, probably, the key to the entire artistic world of Ashkenazi. His life was not easy. After the entry of Soviet troops into Western Ukraine, Ashkenazi was interned in Kazakhstan. During the war, as part of the Czechoslovak infantry battalion, he fought his way to his homeland. After the war, he wrote stories and published books. Films (including Soviet ones) were shot according to his scripts. After the events in Prague in 1968, he left for Germany, in Munich. Continued to write. In the Soviet Union, for obvious reasons, it was no longer published. The stories included in the book «A Dog’s Life» are inspired by war and saturated with war. Ashkenazy writes about a man going through a war, and not only: among the main characters are the shepherd Brut, the dachshund Zizi, the Yarda gelding. Each of the characters has its own character and its own destiny. Fate connected with the war. Brutus, specially trained to poison camp prisoners, suddenly recognizes his former mistress under the hated striped robe … All these are simple, touching stories about the fragility of what is called goodness, dignity, love in the world, and about attempts to protect and defend this fragility.
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