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David Short (trans) and
Karel Michal
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Karolinum
Publication date
September 15, 2008
Pages
225
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9788024614946
ISBN-10
8024614944
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 7.25 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
Original list price
$25.00
Other format details
university press
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Prague-born Karel Michal (1932â84) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakiaâs oppressive communist regime. Prevented from studying at the university as a young man, he fruitlessly cycled through a number of professions before finally turning to writing in the early 1960s. Michalâs worksâwhich include detective fiction, historical novels, short stories, and screenplaysâoffer a Kafkaesque perspective on the mechanism of the absurd and argue for substantial reinterpretation of the concept of ordinary life under a totalitarian regime.
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With Everyday Spooks, Michal presents an unforgettable assortment of fantastic creatures that inhabit his strange vision of everyday reality in â50s and â60s communist Czechoslovakia. Translated from the Czech by David Short and complemented with suitably eerie illustrations by Dagmar HamsÃková, this collection of seven short stories describes bizarre encounters where the past melts into the present, ordinary people meet comic and anxious figures and interact with ghosts, and mundane speech drifts repeatedly into absurdity.
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With Karel Michal |
from Karolinum (September 15, 2008)
9788024614946 | details & prices | 225 pages | 5.25 × 7.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Prague-born Karel Michal (1932â84) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakiaâs oppressive communist regime.
About: Prague-born Karel Michal (1932â84) lived a significant part of his adult life under Czechoslovakiaâs oppressive communist regime.
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