A Tale of Two Worlds

Novak, Vjencesla

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Central European University Press, 2014

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Budapest. 2014. March 2014. Central European University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9786155225826. CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics). Translated by John K. Cox. 294 pages. paperback. keywords: Europe Croatia Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In this novel, written by the esteemed novelist in 1901, a provincial composer and organist from Croatia struggles to find his way along the perilous frontier between the worlds of artistic vocation and humdrum family life. The local kapellmeister--a Czech, in good Habsburg tradition, and a confidant of Gaj and Palacky, influential politicians of the time--recognizes young Amadej Zlatanic as a prodigy and persuades the stingy mayor and stubborn parish priest to pack the teenager off to the conservatory in Prague. After several years of sordid student purgatory, Amadej returns to Croatia--ready for love and ready to make great art.The world of Central Europe in the 1860s flows past, and Amadej tries to keep abreast of political change. At the same time he ducks and dodges predatory relatives and townspeople in his native district, to which he has returned for the sake of employment. Despite his marriage to the impressionable and vulnerable local beauty, Adelka, and his devotion to their daughter Veruska, Amadej is sorely troubled by the political corruption and isolation of Croatia. His wife takes ill and his family is poor. Yet ultimately it is the vulgar, populist notion of Croatian identity--symbolized by the worship of the tamburica, a local musical instrument--that crushes Amadej's career. As it does so, he contemplates the two worlds of national greatness, amidst the Croatian national awakening, and international fame. Finally, frustrated beyond relief by unsuccessful affairs both amorous and professional, and tortured by the philistinism surrounding him, Amadej leaves the world of sanity for a mind-blowing descent into the maniacal and inescapable world of hallucination, paganism, and paranoia. inventory #44639. …

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Titre
A Tale of Two Worlds
Auteur
Novak, Vjencesla
Éditeur
Central European University Press
Année de publication
2014
État de l'article
Very Good in Wrappers
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No Jacket
Reliure
paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
6155225826
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9786155225826
Édition
First Edition.

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