Descripción de contraportada
Alongside Milan Kundera's The Joke, The Axe was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslovakia during the cultural reawakening of the 1960s. Blending lyricism and iconoclasm, Vaculik portrays a culture in upheaval through the timeless story of father and son, joined by idealism but separated by a changing world. It is the mid-1960s, and in Czechoslovakia communist ideology is fading. One disillusioned, middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his childhood. There he rediscovers a complex relationship with his dead father, a crusader for communism in the early days, who reappears through letters written decades earlier. When the narrator is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader - but the stakes now are reversed. He finds new relevance in his father's words: "An extraordinary time requires extraordinary measures". But now the son continues, "I followed the Party line in the first phase of my political life. In the next phase I tried to get rid of it when it prevented me from thinking for myself".
Detalles
- Título The Axe
- Autor Ludvik Vaculik; Marian Sling (Translator)
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: first
- Páginas 223
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Fecha de publicación 1994
- ISBN 9780810110182 / 0810110180
- Peso 0.65 libras (0.29 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.7 x 5.12 x 0.6 pulgadas (19.56 x 13.00 x 1.52 cm)
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 94010931
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Reseñas en medios
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- Library Journal, 11/15/1994, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 10/31/1994, Page 0
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