Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012)
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Josef Skvorecky was born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia on September 27, 1924. Under Nazi occupation, he was forced to work in an aircraft factory. He later read Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He worked for the state publishing house, helping to translate books by Ernest Hemingway, William näytä lisää Faulkner and Raymond Chandler. He began to write detective stories featuring Lieutenant Boruvka, which became popular with Czech readers. In 1958, his novel The Cowards was published and then banned on the grounds that it was "Titoist and Zionist." He and his wife moved to Canada after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the liberal reforms known as the Prague Spring. They founded 68 Publishers in 1971, which released more than 200 books by exiled Czech authors and those banned by the communists. Skvorecky's other written works include Miss Silver's Past, The Engineer of Human Souls, and The Miracle Game. In 1980, he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He taught at the University of Toronto. He died on January 3, 2012 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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All the Bright Young Men and Women: A Personal History of the Czech Cinema (Take One Film Book Series) (1971) 12 kappaletta
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Associated Works
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Avustaja — 72 kappaletta
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Škvorecký, Josef
- Virallinen nimi
- Škvorecký, Josef Vaclav
- Syntymäaika
- 1924-09-27
- Kuolinaika
- 2012-01-03
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Tsjechoslowakije (geboren)
Canada - Maa (karttaa varten)
- Tsjechië
- Syntymäpaikka
- Náchod, Tsjechoslowakije
- Kuolinpaikka
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Asuinpaikat
- Náchod, Tsjechoslowakije
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Koulutus
- Karelsuniversiteit, Praag (Engels ∙ Filosofie)
- Ammatit
- schrijver
Hoogleraar
uitgever - Suhteet
- Salivarová, Zdena (echtg.)
- Organisaatiot
- University of Toronto
Sixty-Eight Publishers - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1980)
Order of the White Lion (1990)
Order of Canada
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The Cowards Tekijä: Josef Škvorecký
I already knew Danny Smiricky, and why? Is he just Svejk, part of the consciousness? Or just omnipresent in Skvorecky's work maybe. He is great in that he's so unlikeable it feels moving when he approaches a truth and then tears his eyes away. I would say it's brave to write this honestly of one's failings, except that I think Skvorecky as an elder still saw women as something just completely other. In any case, if you blur your eyes and skim the endless pages of Irena, there's much of interest in the experience of a volatile time.… (lisätietoja)
I found the writing good but the overall plot choppy and confusing. Apparently this end of a series, while I heard that the end notes clarify things I still couldn't really grasp the whole story. I'd have to read the whole thing. What I read still was quite good just incomplete.
It's been some time since I read this, and I don't recall any details.
Storie con il jazz dentro, nel contenuto e nella forma. Una scrittura che nel primo racconto si fa piena di improvvisazioni e divagazioni e nel secondo lavora sul timbro e il colore. Ottima scoperta.
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