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Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life

English

By (author): Josef Jedlicka

Translated by: Alex Zucker

Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakias postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Journeyof Our Life flew in the face of the reigning aesthetic of socialist realism, an anti-heroic novel informed by the literary theory of Viktor Shklovsky and constructed from episodes and lyrical sketches of the author and his neighbors everyday life in industrial north Bohemia, set against a backdrop of historical and cultural upheaval.
 
Meditative and speculative reflections here alternate and overlap with fragmentary accounts of Jedlickas own biography and slices of the lives of people around him, typically rendered as overheard conversations. The narrative passages range in chronology from May 1945 to the early 1950s, with sporadic leaps through time as the characters go about the business of building a new society and the mythology that goes with it. Due to its critical view of socialist society, Midway remained unpublished until 1966, amid the easing of cultural control, but a complete version of this darkly comic novel did not appear in Czech until 1994. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 14 x 18mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Mar 2016
  • Publisher: KarolinumNakladatelstvi Univerzity KarlovyCzech Republic
  • Publication City/Country: Czechia
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9788024631271
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