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This Side of Reality: Modern Czech Short Stories
 
 
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This Side of Reality: Modern Czech Short Stories (Paperback)

de Alexandra Büchler (Editor, Translator) "For most of the post-war post-war period, Czech literature existed in a peculiar state of fragmentation and dividedness, subjected to censorship, ruptured by exile, and..." En savoir plus
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The ghost of Franz Kafka hovers over the bulk of the surreal and absurdist stories collected in this anthology of Czech writing edited by translator and Czech expatriate Buchler. Unfortunately, what was visionary in an isolated turn of the century genius is rather formulaic in the work collected here. The anthology draws mostly on fiction written during the chill that followed the Prague Spring of 1968, much of which was originally published in underground editions. However, two of the collection's strongest pieces are also the most recent, written after the collapse of communism. The extract from Ludvik Vaculik's novel How to Make a Boy is a highly personal account of fatherhood; while Jachym Topol's excerpt, "A Trip to the Railway Station," offers a darkly comic look at the negative impact of consumerism. Ivan Klima and Josef Skvorecky who, (along with Bohumil Hrabal) are the writers best known to American readers in the anthology, both weigh in with pieces which avoid the self-indulgence and obvious allegory that mar much of the volume. Klima's piece, about a writer under constant surveillance who is briefly reunited with an old love, is the collection's strongest.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 A mixed bag of faded magic realism and inspired tale-telling, Aoû 29 2003
Par John L Murphy "Fionnchú" (Los Angeles) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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The best story in this anthology by far is by the youngest author, "A Trip to the Raliway Station," by Jachym Topol. I recommend his novel "City Sister Silver." In Joycean, demotic, slangy, and debased registers, he manages in his story excerpted here to capture post-1989 Prague while avoiding the imitative Kafkaesque allegory that clogs so much of his earlier, pre-Glasnost compatriots' stories in this volume. Klima's "Tuesday Morning: A Sentimental Tale" from his superb "My Merry Mornings" collection and Skvorecky's droll "The Well-Screened Lizette" both highlight the intricacies of love and sexual politics in the Communist era. Ladislav Fuks' "Kchony Sees the World" and Arnost Lustig's "The River Where the Milky Way Flows" strive to examine the Shoah from an adolescent's oblique viewpoint; Ewald Muller's brief nightmare "Swallowed by Earth" in turn conveys the mood of partisans and refugees during the war forcefully. Ota Pavel's "Cafe Slavia" excerpt and Berkova's "Lousehead" excerpt manage less successfully but still ambitiously to capture some of the manic air of Stalinism and hero worship.

The other selections make me wonder if editors feel compelled to include all of their long-neglected authorial friends in these anthologies. When so many writers have admittedly suffered under totalitarianism and have been limited to samizdat clandestine exposure for decades, it sounds mean to begrudge them a wider audience. And many may not have had the luxury of being enriched by what Western readers could for forty years of the post-WW2 years. I don't mean to patronize, but the rest of the volume does not stand up to the selections I've noted. Topol's novel that followed this anthology, however, confirms him as the first major post-1989 figure in Czech fiction, and I hope that others will follow his formidable but dazzling path soon.

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