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Prague. I See a City... (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Daniela Hodrova Prague. I See a City... (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Daniela Hodrova; Translated by David Short; Foreword by Rajendra Chitnis
R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Prague, I see a city...is a novel of quest, in which the heroine abandons the material world of everyday society and linear history, perceiving it as false, temporary and distracting, and journeys in search of her true identity. Suffused with the atmosphere immediately following the end of the Communist regime, Hodrova's novel is a conscious addition to the tradition of Prague literary texts by, for example, Karel Hynek Macha, Jakub Arbes, Gustav Meyrink, and Franz Kafka, who present the city as a hostile living creature, or as a labyrinthine place of magic and mystery, in which the individual human being may easily get lost. Translated by David Short.

Burying the Season - Blue Drevnice Waltz (Hardcover): Antonin Bajaja Burying the Season - Blue Drevnice Waltz (Hardcover)
Antonin Bajaja; Translated by David Short; Foreword by Rajendra Chitnis
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Translated by David Short Foreword by Rajendra Chitins Burying the Season is an affectionate, multi-layered account of small town life in central Europe beginning in the early 1930s and ending in the 21st Century. Adapting scenes from Fellini's Amarcord, Bajaja's meandering narrative weaves humour, tragedy and historical events into a series of compelling nostalgic anecdotes. The ex-King of Bulgaria, a future president with the unfortunate name Goose, strange visitors and eccentric locals are just a few of the peculiar, but very human, characters drawn by the author experiencing the wonder and disillusionment of their everyday lives. Zlin, Bajaja's hometown, with its Bauhaus inspired architecture, built by its major employer Bata Shoes, feature prominently. Friends and family walk, skate, swim, quarrel, love and fall into the local river Drevnice; disappearing and re-appearing, surviving changing times while their children play Swallows and Amazons. As an essay in remembering, it offers hope.

Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations (Paperback): Rajendra Chitnis, Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Rhian Atkin,... Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations (Paperback)
Rajendra Chitnis, Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Rhian Atkin, Zoran Milutinovic
R1,484 Discovery Miles 14 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the most detailed and wide-ranging comparative study to date of how European literatures written in less well known languages try, through translation, to reach the wider world. Through case studies of over thirteen different national contexts as diverse as Bosnian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Serbian, it explores patterns and contrasts in approaches to supply-driven translation, cultural diplomacy, institutional support and international gate-keeping, while examining the particular fates of poetry, women's writing and genre fiction, and the opportunities arising from trans-medial circulation, self-translation and translingualism and a more radical critique of power balances in the translation and publishing industries. Its comparative approach challenges both the narratives of uniqueness that arise from discrete national approaches and the narrative of tragic marginalization that prevails in world literary approaches. Instead, it uses an interdisciplinary mix of literary, historical, sociological, gender- and translation-studies approaches to illuminate the often pioneering, innovative thinking and strategies that mark these literatures as they take on the inequalities of globalization.

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