A Bohemian Youth
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1997
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-1223-0 (ISBN)
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-1223-0 (ISBN)
Winner, 1998 PEN Center USA West Award for Translation Josef Hirsal's experimental novel is a Dada-like romp through the life of a young man born into a Bohemian peasant family. Told in five parts, A Bohemian Youth begins with a word to the wise, moves on to the text, continues with notes and with notes to the note, and ends with a note on the notes to the notes.
More than just a tongue-in-cheek parody of a literary memoir, A Bohemian Youth is a glimpse of the First Czechoslovak Republic as seen through the eyes of a young peasant from the provinces. Abounding in intimate details--the manners of a servant girl, the habits of the town homosexual, the sounds of popular music; the way people eat in wartime--Hirsal's novel is a wrenching and hilarious tale of a young man's emotional and sexual awakening.
More than just a tongue-in-cheek parody of a literary memoir, A Bohemian Youth is a glimpse of the First Czechoslovak Republic as seen through the eyes of a young peasant from the provinces. Abounding in intimate details--the manners of a servant girl, the habits of the town homosexual, the sounds of popular music; the way people eat in wartime--Hirsal's novel is a wrenching and hilarious tale of a young man's emotional and sexual awakening.
Josef Hirsal was born in 1920 in Chomuticky in northeastern Bohemia. He became known in the 1960s as a poet and translator and was blacklisted after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He now lives in Prague. Michael Henry Heim was a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. His translations of Dubravka Ugresic's Fording the Stream of Consciousness and Felix Roziner's A Certain Finkelmeyer have also been published by Northwestern University Press.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.12.1997 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Writings from an Unbound Europe |
| Verlagsort | Evanston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 128 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8101-1223-X / 081011223X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8101-1223-0 / 9780810112230 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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