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Title: My Merry Mornings: Stories from Prague by Ivan Klima, George Theiner ISBN: 0-930523-05-9 Publisher: Readers Intl Pub. Date: December, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Humanity struggles against a soulless system
Comment: A great collection of seven stories, in which a narrator who seems like the same person (if under varied guises--none of whom smoke!) tells of his encounters against those who buy into the system of secularism, deceit, and denial of the ethical. Whether witnessing an old man watching his wife die in an impersonal hospital, mulling over a fellow worker who claims to have seen a Marian apparition, selling carp to Christmas shoppers, helping a neighbor's child who has literally dropped into his apartment, meeting an old flame returned from affluent exile, listening to a professor who sees phallic symbols rearing rampant in the urban landscape, or boating with religious fanatics, Klima deftly captures the flow of moments that accentuate the survival of the sensitive and the idealistic holdouts who refuse to give in to the system. Even the rants he describes avoid stereotype, and the subtle criticism of the dissident permeates these vignettes in a well-crafted, undogmatic, and moving manner. Although George Theiner (not as photographer but as translator) gives Klima's voice a bit too much of a working-class British inflection, the English version succeeds in its colloquial, unforced fluency. This is what post-1968 Prague must have been like, you think. Far from the Charles Bridge and the Stare Mesto. Grim suburbs, bulldozed fields, damp mattresses, endless queues. Worth remembering today, and to learn from how the Stalinist experiment warped all those under its control.
Rating: 5
Summary: My Merry Mornings : Stories from Prague
Comment: Hats Off to Klima, this is a wonderful book - satire at the highest level. I am really surprised that Klima had the guts to write this is a communist Czeck (then communist). I do not remember anybody other than Capek who was as brilliant. The translation by George Theiner is also great. Though there are seven stories, one for each day of the week but I promise you will finish it in a couple of days. He brings up the dark side but not in a gloomy way but rather in hilarious fashion mixed with sarcasm which definitely deserves all praises. I will definitely recommend this book as a must buy.
Rating: 5
Summary: A bittersweet look at life in communist Prague
Comment: First of all, I can't recomment Mr. Klima's works highly enough. "My merry mornings" is the first one I came across, and I have since read most of his other (translated) works. Most strongly appealing are his wry understanding of the characters he draws; his ability to mine the emotional depths of even day-to-day situations; and his almost understated depiction of life in the shadow of an east bloc regime.
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Title: Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal, Edith Pargeter ISBN: 0810112787 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 09 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Spirit of Prague and Other Essays by Ivan Klima, Paul Wilson ISBN: 0964561123 Publisher: Granta Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Prague: A Cultural and Literary History by Richard D. E. Burton ISBN: 1566564905 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Prague: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Travelers' Literary Companions) by Paul Wilson ISBN: 1883513014 Publisher: Whereabouts Press Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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