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Item Details
| Title:
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BALLAD OF DESCENT
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| By: |
Martin Vopenka, Anna Bryson (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£19.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810112531 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810112537 |
| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 July, 1995 |
| Series: |
Writings from an Unbound Europe S. |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Translated from: |
Czech |
| Description: |
Stylistically and thematically different to the more usual Czech underground literature, this is the story of the departure of two young men in search of their own identity. It provides an interpretation of the individual lost in a world of chaos and futility. |
| Synopsis: |
Martin and Tomas leave Prague on Christmas Day for "that other country." Although their destination is the mountains, their departure has been initiated by a search for their own identity--people in their country have become alike, losing their individuality and becoming products of a totalitarian regime. The pair become the guests of a high school teacher, but Martin falls in love with the teacher's daughter only to lose her in a police suppression, and the Other Country is revealed as a merciless machine of oppression that throws its people into despair. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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