The Cowards - Couverture souple

Skvorecky, Josef

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141047674 ISBN 13 : 9780141047676

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2010

Synopsis

Physical description: 415 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Saxophonists - Czechoslovakia - Fiction.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Anyone who wants to know how it felt to be young, idealistic and innocent at the end of the war should read The Cowards (The Times Literary Supplement )

Sceptical, humourous, liberal and humane. (London Review of Books )

[The series] sheds remarkable light on the literature, culture and politics of the region...anyone coming fresh to the field will be captivated by the richness, variety, humour and pathos of a classic literature that, through a shared historical experience, transcends national and linguistic boundaries. (Cj Schüler Independent on Sunday )

This [series] is a wonderful idea ... They are absurdist parables, by turns hilarious, unsettling and enigmatic. (Nicholas Lezard Guardian )

I urge you to go and read them. (Adam Thirlwell New Statesman )

This new series of Central European Classics is important well beyond simply providing 'good reads'. (Stephen Vizinczey Daily Telegraph )

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Cowards (1958) is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in Kostelec,Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the bass, and the love of Danny's life is in love with somebody else. But Danny despairs most about the bourgeoisie patriots in his town playing at revolution in the face of the approaching Red Army - not least because it ruins the band's chance of any good gigs.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141047674
• ISBN 13: 9780141047676
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 416