The Axe
A Czech Literature, Fiction, European Literature book. That Smetana and Dvok, they were a fine pair of idiots, too," my brother remarked."I...
Alongside Kundera's The Joke, The Axe was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslavakia during the cultural awakening of the 1960s.In late Sixties Czechoslovakia, communist ideology is failing. A disillusioned middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his youth. There he rediscovers the complex relationship with his dead father, a communist crusader. But when the journalist is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader--and that the stakes are now reversed.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 223 pages
- ISBN: 9780810110182 / 810110180
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At the funeral the meaning of all funerals was revealed to me: they are the preparation for one's own death. The clerk asked me if four o'clock in the afternoon would be convenient. I said it would. "It's a nice hour," the clerk assured me. It was. Ludvk Vaculk, The Axe // Uvdomujete si, ptel, e cel v ivot je stle se zpesujc definice toho, m u nikdy nebudete? Ludvk Vaculk, The Axe // A fanatical psychosis of contempt possessed us and we succumbed to it gladly. In it I recognized the real thing, my genuine feeling about these festivals by international troupes of castrated morons and rarified conformist cows. Ludvk Vaculk, The Axe //
Nie bya to atwa lektura. Ksiki Vaculika nie da si przeczyta jednym tchem, nie jest to te literatura do pocigu, a raczej do zacisznego kta, gdzie nic nie bdzie czytelnika rozprasza. Mnie chwilami troch frustrowaa narracja - brak chronologii, strumie wiadomoci, nage przeskoki midzy gosami syna i ojca - lecz mimo to bardzo doceniam tre... Niby zwyczajna opowie o rodzinie, o pokoleniach i wspomnieniach sprzed lat, a tak naprawd poruszajcy powrt do historii i widma reimu, ktry kadzie si cieniem na rzeczywisto. "Why struggle so hard to keep up with this or that when, for the most part, it's heading for the arse-hole."
