LIBROS DEL AUTOR: charles skraszewski

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  • The Vow
    Jiří Kratochvil / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    Can something that exists merely as a literary text, say a story, come about in real life? Can reality, to put it another way, steal something from literature, the same way literature steals from reality? Such is the question that Libor Hrach, the author of The Adventures of the Wise Badger, fields one evening over a hedonistic supper in a tony Brno restaurant from Kamil Modráč...
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    22,52 €

  • Głosy / Voices
    Jan Polkowski / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    In December 1970, amid a harsh winter and an even harsher economic situation, the ruling communist regime in Poland chose to drastically raise prices on basic foodstuffs. Just before the Christmas holidays, for example, the price of fish, a staple of the traditional Christmas Eve meal, rose nearly 20%. Frustrated citizens took to the streets to protest, demanding the repeal of ...
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    22,25 €

  • Slavdom
    Ľudovít Štúr / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    ’Why do you whimper and wail, O Tatra streams and rivers, who carry your plaintive lament resounding to the sea?’ asks the narrator toward the end of The Slovaks, in Ancient Days, and Now. They respond: ’Because our human compatriots do not join together in memory, as we our waters mix with our origin, and because their lives do not resound booming, but roll on unconsciously, l...
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    21,37 €

  • Where Was the Angel Going?
    Jan Balabán / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    ’Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ’People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ’punishment’ is his ever-p...
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    22,04 €

  • Olanda
    Rafał Wojasiński / Charles S. Kraszewski / Charles SKraszewski
    I’ve been happy since the morning. Delighted, even. Everything seems so splendidly transient to me. That dust, from which thou art and unto which thou shalt return - it tempts me. And that’s why I wander about these roads, these woods, among the nearby houses, from which waft the aromas of fried pork chops, chicken soup, fish, diapers, steamed potatoes for the pigs; I lose my e...
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    25,88 €