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Everyday Spooks (Hardcover)
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Everyday Spooks (Hardcover)
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List price R573
Loot Price R527
Discovery Miles 5 270
You Save R46 (8%)
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Prague-born Karel Michal (1932-84) lived a significant part of his
adult life under Czechoslovakia's oppressive communist regime.
Prevented from studying at the university as a young man, he
fruitlessly cycled through a number of professions before finally
turning to writing in the early 1960s. Michal's works--which
include detective fiction, historical novels, short stories, and
screenplays--offer a Kafkaesque perspective on the mechanism of the
absurd and argue for substantial reinterpretation of the concept of
ordinary life under a totalitarian regime.
With "Everyday Spooks," Michal presents an unforgettable
assortment of fantastic creatures that inhabit his strange vision
of everyday reality in '50s and '60s communist Czechoslovakia.
Translated from the Czech by David Short and complemented with
suitably eerie illustrations by Dagmar Hamsikova, this collection
of seven short stories describes bizarre encounters where the past
melts into the present, ordinary people meet comic and anxious
figures and interact with ghosts, and mundane speech drifts
repeatedly into absurdity.
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