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Advances in Immunology
This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods, focusing on the most innovative trend in this period, on those writers who characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature.
This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge in this period, on those writers who, during and after the collapse of communism, characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature. It shows how these writers in their fiction and critical work reacted against the politicisation of literature by Marxist-Leninist and dissident ideologues, rejecting the conventional perception of literature as moral teacher, and redefining the nature and purpose of writing. The book demonstrates how this quest, enacted in the works of these writers, served for many critics and readers as a metaphor for the wider disorientation and crisis precipitated by the collapse of communism.
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Antonín Kratochvíl was born in Czechoslovakia in 1947, the son of a local photographer, and the youngest of three children. On September 13, 1967, unable to endure the persecution in his homeland, he escaped under the barbed wire of the country's border with Austria. A four-year period of refugee camps, hostile foreign countries, and separation from family and friends ensued. In 1972, Kratochvíl moved to the United States' West Coast to begin work as an editorial photographer and photojournalist. Practicing in the tradition of humanist photography, he has since captured countless pictures around the world of social unrest and war, documenting people in extreme situations and crisis condit...
Vols. 3-140 include the society's Proceedings, 1907-41
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Soubor povídek s detektivní zápletkou, obsahující témata z černé kroniky. Zdánlivě neřešitelné záhady jsou tu často logicky vysvětleny, ale nenaznačeno, na čí straně je zlo, což je výsledek autorova vyznávání filozofie relativismu. Povídkám je vlastní živý hovorový styl, srozumitelnost, zaměření na detail. Příběhy propojuje postava komisaře Mejzlíka či vypravěče. Kniha je doporučenou školní četbou.