Case Closed: A Novel (Czech Literature Series)
Following the success of 2005’s Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century, Patrik Ouředník again confounds expectations with what seems, on the surface, to be a detective novel...Centered on an elderly retiree and his intellectual adversary, the shrewd Inspector Lebeda, Case Closed is...
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Following the success of 2005’s Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century, Patrik Ouředník again confounds expectations with what seems, on the surface, to be a detective novel...Centered on an elderly retiree and his intellectual adversary, the shrewd Inspector Lebeda, Case Closed is filled with all the expected elements of a thriller—murder, rape, suicide!—but soon reveals itself as a wily and sophisticated parable about the dangers of language itself, in which the author takes aim at human nature with a devastating arsenal of genre-mixing, wordplay, and whimsical, biting satire.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781564785770 (1564785777)
ASIN: 1564785777
Publish date: 2010-06-08
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Pages no: 124
Edition language: English
Cleverly subverts the expectation, created by the cover copy, that the book itself will contain an appreciable amount of clever subversion. Too clever by more than half, which is the percentage of storylines and/or character sketches that turn out to go absolutely nowhere.
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