The questionnaire
By: Jiří Gruša ; preface by Josef Škvorecký.
Edition: 1st Dalkey archive ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Normal, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Description: "Originally circulated in Czechoslovakia in an underground edition of nineteen typewritten copies (which landed the author in jail for "initiating disorder"), The Questionnaire is Jiri Grusa's internationally acclaimed masterpiece.

In completing a standard employment questionnaire, narrator Jan Kepka manages to write a beautifully impressionistic history of his life, his family, and his hometown as he obeys - with mock solemnity - the handwritten command on top of the form: "DO NOT CROSS OUT.""--BOOK JACKET.