The melancholic chicken 1889

Josef Karel Šlejhar

Little Lojzík, whose mother was struck and killed by lightening, lives on a farm with his father and their old manservant. He perceives the raw surrounding world as images promising him his mother’s lost embrace. The young boy searches in vain for someone out of all those near him to connect with. He can’t get support and security from his father, from his mother’s sister, nor even from his stepmother who, at least at the beginning, sympathized with his troubles. The only one, in fact, with whom Lojzík can share his lonely fate as an abandoned young one is an ordinary chicken.

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