Rustic baroque
Subtitle: a novel : with additional stories from The wooden knife
By: by Jiří Hájíček ; translated from the Czech by Gale A. Kirking
Contributors: Kirking, Gale A., 1958- translator
Edition: 1st print. in the Czech Republic.
Publisher: Real World Press book [i.e. English Editorial Services
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Brno
Language: cze; eng
Translated from: cze
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9788090535718
Subjects: Village communities; Fiction; Communism; Genealogy
Other titles: Wooden knife
Work titles: Selský baroko
Description: Culture, history, language, and indeed the living memory of a nation fuse in Jiří Hájíček's Rustic Baroque and in the additional stories included in this volume. Winner of the Magnesia Litera prize as the best Czech novel of 2005, Rustic Baroque is set in South Bohemia about a decade after the Velvet Revolution. It recalls the1950's collectivization of agriculture, and torn social fabric in the decades to follow.
Notes: Culture, history, language, and indeed the living memory of a nation fuse in Jiří Hájíček's Rustic Baroque and in the additional stories included in this unique volume. Winner of the Magnesia Litera prize as the best Czech novel of 2005, Rustic Baroque is set in South Bohemia about a decade after the Velvet Revolution. It recalls the1950's collectivization of agriculture, and torn social fabric in the decades to follow.