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The Engineer of Human Souls

An entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death. Translated by Paul Wilson

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  • 571pagine
  • 20 ore di lettura

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The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is let loose to roam between past and present, adopting whatever identity that he chooses or has been imposed upon him by History. As adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, The Engineer of Human Souls is worthy of the subtitle Skvorecky gave it: "An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death."

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The Engineer of Human Souls, Josef Škvorecký

Lingua
Pubblicato
1984
Rilegatura
(Copertina rigida),
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In buone condizioni
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15,99 €

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Titolo
The Engineer of Human Souls
Sottotitolo
An entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death. Translated by Paul Wilson
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
1984
Formato
Copertina rigida
Pagine
571
ISBN10
0919630170
ISBN13
9780919630178
Serie
Descrizione
The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is let loose to roam between past and present, adopting whatever identity that he chooses or has been imposed upon him by History. As adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, The Engineer of Human Souls is worthy of the subtitle Skvorecky gave it: "An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death."