Prague Tales (Central European Classics)

Prague Tales (Central European Classics)

by IvanKlima (Introduction), Michael Henry Heim (Introduction), JanNeruda (Author)

Synopsis

Prague Tales ia a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, and bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of the Little Quarter of nineteenth-century Prague. These finely tuned and varied vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech realist--considered by many to be the Charles Dickens of nineteenth-century Czechoslovakia. Through Neruda's writings, the reader can fully appreciate Prague's ever increasing awareness of itself as a Czech, rather than an Austrian city. Prague Tales is a classic collection by a writer whose influence hass been acknowledged by generations of writers, including Capek, Kafka, Kundera, Skvorecky, and Ivan Klima, one of the most well-known and highly regarded contemporary Czech writers, who has contributed an Introduction to this new translation.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 01 Jun 1995

ISBN 10: 1858660580
ISBN 13: 9781858660585

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