Love and Garbage - Couverture rigide

Klima, Ivan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701133627 ISBN 13 : 9780701133627

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1990

Synopsis

A writer whose works are rejected by the state publishing houses takes a job on a street-sweeping gang in Prague. His co-workers provide him with a new and unsettling view of this city and his society. This is an evocation of the fate of the creative artist under a repressive regime.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"A sad and hauntingly beautiful elegy for just about everything mortal" (Time Out)

"Few writers have the invention and skill to juxtapose within one novel so many diverse themes, mundane and sublime, savage and compassionate, held in a satisfying balance. He tosses time and space about in a net seeking to catch the eternal" (Observer)

"The dilapidated regime Love and Garbage depicts is now of course on history's rubbish dump. One of those who helped to put it there is this writer" (Sunday Times)

Présentation de l'éditeur

The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively, on his passionate and adulterous love affair with the sculptress Daria. Gradually he admits the impossibility of being at once an honest writer and an honest lover, and with that agonising discovery comes a moment of choice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701133627
• ISBN 13: 9780701133627
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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