Description
One of the most successful Czech works of fiction of the 1960s, this collection of stories presents Karel Michal’s original satire of everyday life in communist Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s. The stories are filled with grotesque, often absurd humour and are linked by encounters on the boundary between appearance and reality. Ordinary people—a clerk, officer, editor, paver and castle keeper—meet unusual phenomena, including a ring that turns a person into a bear, a household goblin, a dormer spirit, a murderous dwarf and a talking dead cat. Through the confrontation between their actions, thoughts and plain speech, the stories reveal the character of a strange era that is empty, absurd and almost unreal.
Information
Author: Michal Karel
Language: Czech
Publication date: October 1, 2008
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Karolinum
Genres: Czech and slovak fiction, Books, Fiction
Type: Hardcover book
Pages: 199
ISBN/EAN: 9788024615646