Description
This Czech-language volume brings together two newly translated novels by Ludwig Winder, whose work speaks through the period aesthetics of expressionist unease and the New Objectivity to urgent contemporary questions of lost identity, alienation, and the mechanisms of power and manipulation. The developmental novel Jewish Organ explores humanity’s age-old effort to resist authority. Albert Wolf refuses unquestioning obedience to his father and to the God of his ancestors, while his attempts to overcome suppressed desires, doubt and self-torment alternate with the realisation that his own exceptional nature is both a curse and a calling. The political novel Delayed Pleasures exposes the power of money and the fragility of values in a post-war period of economic crises and moral upheaval. Efforts to make up for missed opportunities can become substitutes for unfulfilled dreams, as well as cold calculations for controlling and blackmailing others. What happens when the supposed material good in the hands of Adam Dupič becomes a tool for doing evil?
Information
Language: Czech
Publication date: December 19, 2025
Manufacturer: HOST - vydavatelství, s.r.o.
Genres: Novels, Books, Fiction
Type: Hardcover book
Pages: 337
ISBN/EAN: 9788027522736