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Daily Archives: July 27, 2012
Love and Garbage
A novel by the Czech writer Ivan Klima, written in the early 1980s: mostly garbage, actually. He’s very good on garbage: he describes well the environmental pollution of Prague and its environs by the communist regime, and how they also … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Czech Republic, Ivan Klima, Love and Garbage, Prague, Soviet empire
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I Served The King Of England
This novel by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, written in 1971, consists of a series of impossible anecdotes strung around the life of the narrator, a waiter in Bohemia during the years around the Second World War. At first it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bohumil Hrabal, book review, central Europe, Czech Republic, I Served The King Of England, Nazis, Soviet empire
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