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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 450
Utgivningsdatum: 2018-11-15
Förlag: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Översättare: Gerald Turner
Medarbetare: Bolton, Jonathan (afterword)
Illustratör/Fotograf: 25 halftones
Illustrationer: 25 halftones
Dimensioner: 208 x 155 x 43 mm
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ISBN: 9788024638522

Czech Dreambook

Name: Czech Dreambook
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Author: Ludvik Vaculik
ISBN: 9788024638522

av Ludvik Vaculik

Häftad, Engelska, 2018-11-15

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Its 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvk Vaculk has writers block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powerful novel, The Guinea Pigs, and it was in 1968 that he wrote his anti-regime manifesto, Two Thousand Words, which the Soviet Union used as a pretext for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of his friend, the poet and surrealist painter Ji Kol, Vaculk begins to keep a diary, a book about things, people, and events. This marks the beginning of A Czech Dreambook. Fifty-four weeks later, what Vaculk turns out to have written is a unique mixture of diary, dream journal, and outright fictionan inverted roman clef in which the author, his family, his mistresses, and the real leaders of the Czech underground play major roles. Undisputedly the most debated novel among the Prague dissident community of the 1980s, it is a work that Vaculk himself described as an amalgam of hard-boiled documentary and magic fiction, while Vclav Havel called it a truly profound and perceptive account. . . . A great novel about modern life and the crisis of contemporary humanity. A Czech Dreambook has been hailed as the most important work of Czech literature in the past forty years. And yet it has never before been available in English. Flawlessly translated by Gerald Turner, Vaculks masterpiece is a brilliant exercise in style, dry humor, and ironyan important portrait of the lives and longings of the dissidents and post-Communist elites.

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"A novel about hope and hopelessness, about ever-present danger, about the strange dreamlike quality of life in a totalitarian system, about the absurdity of present-day 'civilized' living, about losing a home and the disintegration of time and human identity, about love, about nature, about courage, about fear, about death."--Vclav Havel, dissident playwright and the first post-Communist president of Czechoslovakia "Whether they liked it or not, ACzech Dreambook supplied many dissidents with their most intense reading experience of the normalization years."--Jonathan Bolton, Harvard University professor of Slavic languages and literature, in his book "Worlds of Dissent" "I could write a whole novel about Vaculk, except that he has already written one about himself. The novel is entitled A Czech Dreambook and tells a lot about the things you won't even want to believe could have really happened."--Ivan Klima, dissident and acclaimed novelist

Ludvik Vaculik (1926-2015) was a leading figure of Czech dissident literature of the 1970s and '80s. He began his writing career as a journalist and a member of the Communist party, of which he grew disillusioned. Banned from writing, Vaculik turned to writing samizdat and publishing the work of other banned writers. Gerald Turner has been one of the leading translators of the Czech language since the early 1980s. He was personal translator to the playwright and President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel.