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Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012)

Autor(a) de The Engineer of Human Souls

87+ Works 3,093 Membros 61 Críticas 17 Favorited

About the Author

Josef Skvorecky was born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia on September 27, 1924. Under Nazi occupation, he was forced to work in an aircraft factory. He later read Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He worked for the state publishing house, helping to translate books by Ernest Hemingway, William mostrar mais Faulkner and Raymond Chandler. He began to write detective stories featuring Lieutenant Boruvka, which became popular with Czech readers. In 1958, his novel The Cowards was published and then banned on the grounds that it was "Titoist and Zionist." He and his wife moved to Canada after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the liberal reforms known as the Prague Spring. They founded 68 Publishers in 1971, which released more than 200 books by exiled Czech authors and those banned by the communists. Skvorecky's other written works include Miss Silver's Past, The Engineer of Human Souls, and The Miracle Game. In 1980, he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He taught at the University of Toronto. He died on January 3, 2012 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por Josef Škvorecký

The Engineer of Human Souls (1984) — Autor — 662 exemplares
The Bass Saxophone (1977) 289 exemplares
The Cowards (1958) 279 exemplares
The Miracle Game (1991) 210 exemplares
Miss Silver's Past (1969) 149 exemplares
Swell Season (1975) 143 exemplares
Sins for Father Knox (1973) 138 exemplares
The End of Lieutenant Boruvka (1975) 99 exemplares
The Bride of Texas (1992) 57 exemplares
Talkin' Moscow Blues (1988) 55 exemplares
Headed for the Blues: A Memoir (1996) 52 exemplares
Ordinary Lives (2008) 49 exemplares
The Tenor Saxophonist's Story (1993) 48 exemplares
Legenda Emöke (1966) 7 exemplares
Dvě legendy (1982) 7 exemplares
A Tall Tale of America (1980) 6 exemplares
Ze života české společnosti (1985) 5 exemplares
Miracle en Bohême (1978) — Autor — 4 exemplares
De gekooide charleston (2010) 4 exemplares
Samožerbuch (1991) 3 exemplares
Skleněný klíč 2 exemplares
Farářův konec 2 exemplares
Bůh do domu (1980) 2 exemplares
Babylonsky Pribeh 2 exemplares
Gorzki świat (2020) 2 exemplares
Věk nylonu : fragment románu (1992) 2 exemplares
Oh, my papa! 1 exemplar
Fajny sezon (1999) 1 exemplar
Humbug 1 exemplar
Iz života češkog društva (1987) 1 exemplar
O nich - o nás 1 exemplar
Mirakl II. 1 exemplar
Mirakl I. 1 exemplar
Le Camarade joueur de jazz (1999) 1 exemplar
Zbabělci (2015) 1 exemplar
Hlas z Ameriky (1990) 1 exemplar
Slzy Sedmi Bolestí (2008) 1 exemplar
Timeo Danaos a jiné eseje (2006) 1 exemplar
Dio 2 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) — Tradutor, algumas edições53,602 exemplares
Arrowsmith (1925) — Posfácio, algumas edições2,076 exemplares
Closely Watched Trains (1965) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,042 exemplares
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 213 exemplares
Granta 29: New World (1989) — Contribuidor — 151 exemplares
Granta 30: New Europe (1990) — Contribuidor — 145 exemplares
Granta 14: Autobiography (1984) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
Granta 13: After the Revolution (1984) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Moxon's Master (short story) (1893) — Prefácio, algumas edições15 exemplares
Daedalus, Winter 1990: Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Europe (1990) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Realm of the Impossible (2017) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares

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I already knew Danny Smiricky, and why? Is he just Svejk, part of the consciousness? Or just omnipresent in Skvorecky's work maybe. He is great in that he's so unlikeable it feels moving when he approaches a truth and then tears his eyes away. I would say it's brave to write this honestly of one's failings, except that I think Skvorecky as an elder still saw women as something just completely other. In any case, if you blur your eyes and skim the endless pages of Irena, there's much of interest in the experience of a volatile time.… (mais)
 
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Kiramke | 4 outras críticas | Nov 12, 2023 |
I found the writing good but the overall plot choppy and confusing. Apparently this end of a series, while I heard that the end notes clarify things I still couldn't really grasp the whole story. I'd have to read the whole thing. What I read still was quite good just incomplete.
 
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charlie68 | 2 outras críticas | Oct 27, 2023 |
It's been some time since I read this, and I don't recall any details.
 
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mykl-s | 4 outras críticas | Aug 13, 2023 |
Storie con il jazz dentro, nel contenuto e nella forma. Una scrittura che nel primo racconto si fa piena di improvvisazioni e divagazioni e nel secondo lavora sul timbro e il colore. Ottima scoperta.
 
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d.v. | 5 outras críticas | May 16, 2023 |

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Obras
87
Also by
16
Membros
3,093
Popularidade
#8,254
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
61
ISBN
263
Línguas
21
Marcado como favorito
17

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