The Fiction Of Josef Skvorecky

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448137799
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Author : Paul I Trensky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349215317
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of Josef Škvorecký written by Paul I Trensky and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-09-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josef Skvorecky
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030736416X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Headed for the Blues written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed memoir, one of our most revered writers reveals the true story behind his highly autobiographical fiction - accompanied by ten dark and hilarious interconnected tales set in Czechoslovakia's jazz-filled underground.

Author : Josef Škvorecký
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564781994
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engineer of Human Souls written by Josef Škvorecký and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud." Los Angeles Times Book Review

Author : Josef Skvorecky
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307364143
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cowards written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girls, jazz, politics, the golden dreams and black comedy of youth--these are the compelling ingredients of The Cowards. May 1945, a small town in Czechoslovakia. The Germans are withdrawing. The Red Army is advancing. And Danny Smiricky is being forced to grow up fast. Observing with contempt the antics of the town's citizens playing it safe, he adopts the role first of reluctant conscript, then of dashing partisan. The Cowards is the story of an uncomplicated, talented youth caught up in momentous historic events who refuses to be bored to death by politics--or to lie down and die without a fight. --

Author : Josef Skvorecky
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307364186
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Republic Of Whores written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a not-so-long-ago time, on an army base in rural Czechoslovakia, the draftees of the Seventh Tank Battalion gird themselves for the inevitable war with America by practicing tank manoeuvres (or faking them), studying Russian texts (with horror novels tucked inside), and singing patriotic songs (with refreshing new lyrics). Among them is Tank Commander Danny Smiricky, looking forward to discharge and trying to stay out of trouble in the meantime--not an easy task when he's torn between two irresistible women, and surrounded by a boisterous and hilariously independent-minded tank crew. But the greatest danger to Danny is his politically correct major, a tiny termagant known as the Pygmy Devil. And on the eve of Danny's discharge, disaster looms... Behind the comedy of his exuberantly lustful tale lies a savage parody of life under foreign occupation.

Author : Josef Skvorecky
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307364178
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Silver's Past written by Josef Skvorecky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karel Leden works in the State publishing house in Prague, where you publish what the Party likes, or risk life and liberty. Then the beautiful, mysterious Lenka Silver arrives. Passions rise--and suddenly there is a murder. There are plenty of suspects, but all that is certain is that the affair is in some way connected to Miss Silver's past...

Author : Josef Škvorecký
Publisher : Key Porter Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Lives written by Josef Škvorecký and published by Key Porter Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of two class reunions — one in 1963, and the next in 1993, 30 years later —Ordinary Livesresurrects Skvorecky’s former narrator and alter ego, Danny Smiricky. As the reunions force Danny to reconcile himself to his past, he is plagued by a “torrent of ungovernable thoughts.” And as his former classmates begin to understand how he’s spent the intervening years, the reader is guided through a history of the major ideologies of the 20th century: from Nazism, to Communism, to capitalism. Skvorecky juxtaposes the defining moments of the modern era with the ordinary lives of his recurring characters. Beautifully written, slim but powerful, this novel is an apt culmination of a literary master’s extraordinary career.

Author : Josef Škvorecký
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393307870
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sins for Father Knox written by Josef Škvorecký and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clergyman named Ronald A. Knox once set forth a set of rules for writing detective fiction. In ten new stories (two featuring Lieutenant Boruvka), a crime occurs that violates one of Father Knox's rules, thus serving up a double challenge: Who dunnit? and Which rule was broken?

Author : Josef Škvorecký
Publisher : Toronto: P. Martin Associates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9T/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Bright Young Men and Women written by Josef Škvorecký and published by Toronto: P. Martin Associates. This book was released on 1971 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Peter Neil Issacs collection.