Josef Škvorecký
Birth date: September 24, 1924
Died: January 03, 2012
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bookshelves: summer-2015, translation, trains-planes-automobiles, published-1965, czech, play-dramatisation, radio-4, war, prague, coming-of-age, period-piece, amusing, existentialism, absurdist, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, tbr-busting-2015 Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Nicole~ Read from March...
I liked it. Didn't think I would. Reminded me a bit of Robert Walser because of the narrator's childlike wonder of it all, except in this version, unlike the wandering and unlucky Walser, this hero gets laid. And in more ways than one.
A description of this novel can give some idea of the various materials it's woven together from, but won't mention any of the large gallery of riotous, pathetic, human characters. Any book as full as this one -- telling only part of the protagonist's life but suggesting that there's much more; movi...
Oh well, it seems like after being done with Czechoslovakia as seen by Marius S. I had to go straight to a Czech novel wrote by an author mentioned several times in Gottland.But this is just a coincidence. For The Cowards was already with me for a few months.This novel is written in a very impulsive...
I confess I'm a bit shocked to see Skvorecky so neglected on this site. I would have thought he was a mainstream popular writer...obviously I'm wrong.He's fabulous.
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