
Everyday Spooks
K. Michal(Author)
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 18. September 2009
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-80-246-1494-6 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of seven short stories about wierd and fantastic creatures that inhabit the strange world of everyday reality in 50's and 60's communist Czechoslovakia. Following the best tradition of Czech humouristic and satiric fiction, as well as the magic, obscure and grotesque literary visions of Prague, represented mainly by Kafka's works, Karel Michal desribes, with keen and intelligent humour, fantastic encounters, where the past melts into the present, where ordinary people meet both comic and anxious figures and ghosts and where everyday speech turns into an absurd dialog. Two stories from the book (How Pimple Struck Lucky, The Cockabogey) have been filmed and Karel Michal has become well-known as an imaginative critic of "socialist reality." The book is illustrated by Dagmar Hamsikova.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ovocny
Czech Republic
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations (some col.)
Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-80-246-1494-6 (9788024614946)
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Person
David Short is professor of Czech and Slovak in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London.