The Engineer of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, the Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death - Hardcover
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As Danny Smiricky, a Czech writer who fled his country in 1968 to find asylum at a university in Toronto, adjusts to life in the New World, his memories of his homeland and his lost youth haunt him
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The Engineer of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First American edition. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear and slight toning. Artikel-Nr. 535969
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Engineer of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents.
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Zustand: good, good. First American Edition. 571, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, some edge wear. Complete subtitle: An entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death. The expression "the engineer of human souls" is held, by many political indoctrinators, to be Stalin's definition of a writer: as an engineer constructs a machine, so must a writer construct the mind of the New Man. "The Engineer of Human Souls" is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. Josef Shvorecky is unquestionably an important writer, blending a great humorous talent with a restless, sustained, probing moral inquisitiveness. The author was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Artikel-Nr. 51880
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Second Printing, August 1984. 571pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "It is magnificent! . . It marks an exceptional moment in history. . . It is a magnum opus."--Milan Kundera. "From the internationally acclaimed writer Josef Skvorecky: his most stunning and ambitious work. 'An entertainment,' he calls it, 'on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death.' It is a novel whose protagonist is a novelist, Danny Smiricky, a Czech, who, feeling himself to be 'too old to write for the desk drawer,' fled his country in 1968 to find asylum in Canada. When we meet him, he has been--for nearly a decade--professor of American literature (his great love) at Edenvale College in Toronto. He still sees his New World with Old World eyes, seduced by its freedom and sercurity, charmed by its earnest decadence, exasperated by its political innocence. . . Let loose in his surrealistic Eden, Danny finds much to divert him, much to satisfy 'a writer's unscrupulous hunger,' and has absolutely no nostalgia for Stalin's dictum that a writer should be an engineer of the soul of the New Socialist Man. [] The novel moves between the quirky calm of Danny's American present and the (unresolved) suspense of his past, that tragic, comic melodrama in which he stars as Youth; as feckless hero of the Resistance; as lover of Nadia the factory girl, his co-conspirator in sabotage; as hipster manque of a small Bohemian town under the pall of the Nazi occupation--with a cast of heroes, traitors, cowards, hotheads, and innocents. . . [] From this rich interaction of past and present emerges an extraordinary portrait of a writer in exile, moving toward a greatly longed-for identification--which will never be complete--with the country he now calls home. It is at once Danny's story and the whole sorrowful history of East and West since the war--a wise, witty, bawdy, tender novel of dazzling reach and sweep." [jacket copy] "As Cabrera Infante has lately done with Cubans, and Salman Rushdie with Pakistanis, so does Skvorecky with Czechs in this enormously disillusioned, constantly readable, and buoyantly happy/sad novel: a picture of temporary nationalism (embodied in this case by immigrants) that captures the particular genius of a people who've come through terrible history with the help of luminous personal gaiety. . . Few contemporary novels have mixed impurities of high and low content as smoothly and unselfconsciously as this one. . . this epic novel remains true to its blend of awful sadness and profound relief throughout: it's a generous, impulsive, poignant/funny masterpiece."--Kirkus Reviews. Massive & pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a Fine, intact jacket. Artikel-Nr. RUB2981
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