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A hymn to the invisible 'other' Prague, lurking on the peripheries of the town so familiar to tourists.
The remarkable debut novel from Marek Sindelka, Aberrant is a multifaceted work that mixes and mashes together a variety of genres and styles to create a heady concoction of crime story, horror story (inspired by the Japanese tradition of kaidan), ecological revenge fantasy, and Siberian shamanism. Nothing is what it seems. What appears to be human is actually a shell occupied by an alien spirit, or demon, and what appears to be an unassuming plant is an aggressive parasite that harbors a poisonous substance within, or manifests itself as an assassin, a phantom with no real substance who pursues his victims across Europe and through a post-apocalyptic Prague ravaged by floods. The blind see,...
Introduction to Czechia is a comprehensive guidebook for foreigners interested in visiting or living in the Czech Republic. Written by Karen Feldscher, the book covers everything from the country's geography, history, and culture to practical information on transportation, accommodation, and food. The first chapter of the book provides a brief introduction to the Czech Republic, including its location, climate, and population. The subsequent chapters delve into the country's rich history, tracing its roots from prehistoric times to the present day. The book also covers the Czech Republic's political system, economy, and society, providing a nuanced understanding of the country's contemporary...
The Victorian novel clearly joins with science in the pervasive secularizing of nature and society and in the exploration of the consequences of secularization that characterized mid-Victorian England. p. viii.
It’s 1979 in Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing restoration of repressive communism known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writer’s block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his last novel, and even longer since he wrote the 1968 manifesto, "Two Thousand Words,” which the Soviet Union used as one of the pretexts for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of a friend, Vaculík begins to keep a diary: "a book about things, people and events.” Fifty-four weeks later, what Vaculík has written is a unique mixture of diary, dream journal, and outright fiction – an inverted roman à clef in which the author, his family, his mistresses, the secret police and leading figures of the Czech underground play major roles.