- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys (Oct 15 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0886194555
- ISBN-13: 978-0886194550
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #544,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
Danny Smiricky, already known to Skvorecky's readers, is obsessed with jazz and with girls. His vain pursuit of six provincial beauties is the basis of these stories, set during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. To win over these girls, Danny does their homework, sets up elaborate schemes to be alone with them, even engages in modest anti-Nazi action. But things always go wronga girl's father interferes, the courted girls gang up on him, he is upstaged by a less notorious young manand he is left with only his music as consolation. While Danny's erotic pursuits are at times humorous and his adolescent wistfulness is captured accurately, this is a minor work of the acclaimed Czech emigre author of Engineer of Human Souls ( LJ 7/84). Marie Bednar, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., University Park
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
“Skvorecky is a magnificent writer and a hilarious observer of human folly.“
?Newsweek
“One of the major literary figures of our time. His novels are sad, funny?and utterly gripping.“
?The New Yorker
“Josef Skvorecky is unquestionably an important writer, blending a great humorous talent with a restless, sustained, probing moral inquisitiveness.“
?Times Literary Supplement
“Skvorecky displays the tongue-in-cheek irony that is common to many Eastern European writers, but his unique compassion, humanism and wisdom in the face of relentless, unspeakable political horror makes him consistently engaging and intriguing. ?[O]ne of the finest international writers of his generation.“
? Publishers Weekly
“Skvorecky is a master of that modern specialty, the heart-rending belly-laugh.“
? Time
“A funny, despairing, satirical, compassionate, sprawling, gloomy, provocative, prophetic, angry, and entertaining book. One of the most important novels ever written in Canada.“
? Canadian Forum, on The Engineer of Human Souls
“Magnificent! A magnum opus in all respects.“
?Milan Kundera, on The Engineer of Human Souls
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