Cremator
Published on 15. May 2021
182 pages
978-80-246-3875-1 (ISBN)
Description
"The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist."-Giovanni Papini
It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary world and pervades this tragicomic novel of anxiety and evil set amid the horrors of World War II. As a gay man living in a totalitarian, patriarchal society, noted Czech writer Ladislav Fuks identified with the tragic fate of his Jewish countrymen during the Holocaust. The Cremator arises from that shared experience. Fuks presents a grotesque, dystopian world in which a dutiful father, following the strict logic of his time, liberates the souls of his loved ones by destroying their bodies-first the dead, then the living. As we watch this very human character-a character who never ceases to believe that he is doing good-become possessed by an inhuman ideology, the evil that initially permeates the novel's atmosphere concretizes in this familiar family man. A study of the totalitarian mindset with stunning resonance for today, The Cremator is a disturbing, powerful work of literary horror.
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Ladislav Fuks
The Cremator
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10/2016
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
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Content
- Cover
- About the author
- Afterword to The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks
- Translator's Note and Acknowledgement
- About the translator
