Author: Arnost Lustig; Josef Skvorecky (Afterword by); Iris Urwin-Levit (Translator); Vera Borkovec (Translator); Paul Wilson (Translator)
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: $20.00 NZD
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: 01 May 1988
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: Arnost Lustig; Josef Skvorecky (Afterword by); Iris Urwin-Levit (Translator); Vera Borkovec (Translator); Paul Wilson (Translator)
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Description
In these three novellas, Arnost Lustig explores the existential interiors of those at the margin of disaster. A German prostitute assigned to Prague, a girl in a Nazi home for orphans, and a young woman working as a cashier in a movie theater lose themselves in a world of cruelty and collapsing social order--while their inner worlds teem with sexual fantasy, naive idealism, vengefulness, and visions of justice. Yet these so-called indecent dreams cannot compare with the obscenity of cruelty and domination legitimated by the Nazi imagination."