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I, City by Pavel Brycz (Paperback, 2007)

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Fiction. Translated from the Czech by Joshua Cohen and Marketa Hofmeisterova. Winner of the Orten Prize and the State Prize for Literature in 2004. I, CITY is a story about the rth Bohemian city of Most, an ancient city founded on a primeval wetland that was literally relocated to get to the brown coal beneath it. For Pavel Brycz, the youngest ever recipient of the Czech State Prize for Literature, Most is its varied inhabitants, and he as the city tell its own story through these inhabitants, who make their appearances in fleeting, ghost-like vignettes. As they emerge from the pollution, or from the swamp of the town's founding, we find t individuals but representatives. Theirs are historical lives that mistrust history, or that live it at least with typical irony. As Brycz makes fictional people say factual things and factual people (Kafka, the pope, Gustav Husak) say fictional things, post-modernity via magical realism makes its almost requisite--though iseless--appearance in the best easterly European tradition of Danilo Kis or Isaac Babel.

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Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press
ISBN-10
8086264270
ISBN-13
9788086264271
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105791051

Product Key Features

Author
Pavel Brycz
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Prague
Content Note
With Flaps
Translated by
Joshua Cohen,Marketa Hofmeisterova
Date of Publication
15/01/2007
Country of Publication
Czech Republic

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