Description
One of the most famous and, alongside the Invalid Siblings, perhaps the most valued works of Bondy's prose (first published in samizdat in 1976) is built on the realities of prehistoric, Neolithic society, which is, however, permeated by elements of a contemporary police "communist" state. The fate of the aging "shaman," a kind of spiritual leader of the tribe, reflects the perversion of the era: compromise, the arbitrariness of the powerful, manipulation of people, the struggle to survive at the expense of others: "the devil's world," in which there is no hope for a turnaround for the better, for an escape, for the preservation of moral values. I. M. Jirous once pointed out that the central character is a stylized self-portrait of the author, in which self-accusation mixes with an apology. The Shaman is, among other things, one of the few works by Bondy supplemented by an ad hoc written cycle of poems, thus a work in which the contradiction between "didactic" epic and "autoconfessional" lyricism is transcended.
Information
Author: Bondy Egon
Publication date: September 22, 2022
Manufacturer: Jiří Tomáš - nakladatelství Akropolis
Genres: Czech and slovak fiction, Novels, Books, Fiction
Type: Flexible books
Pages: 152
ISBN/EAN: 9788074704338