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RO60111097. THE ENGINEER OF HUMAN SOULS. 1986. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur acceptable. 571 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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A deep pleasure to read.
Starred Review.This powerful, moving, yet often hilarious novel is an example of cultural meditation at its best.
Skvorecky is so much of a writer that the moment he puts pen to paper, he can't help being an artist.
What better check on general doctrine than the poet's and the novelist's 'small stories, ' the kind that Josef Skvorecky recounts with such verve and generosity.
A complex, challenging analysis of contemporary politics and society, The Engineer of Human Souls will become a milestone in the evolution of world literature.
Josef Skvorecky is unquestionably an important writer, blending a great humorous talent with a restless, sustained, probing moral inquisitiveness . . . The Engineer of Human Souls will certainly introduce the reader to the distinctive Skvorecky world.
[Skvorecky is] one of the major literary figures of our time . . . a novelist of the first rank . . . one of the masters of current Czech literature . . . His novels are sad, funny--and utterly gripping.
By turns comic or sad and bitter, Skvorecky's book is a marvelous exploration of the human condition.
Among its many other virtues, The Engineer of Human Souls is perhaps the funniest academic novel since Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man.
Starred Review. This powerful, moving, yet often hilarious novel is an example of cultural meditation at its best.
Skvorecky would probably chide us for dismissing any of the injustices and griefs that abound in [the novel]. They are real and they are gruesome. And yet we put the novel down with a sense of joy at the plenitude of life. --Michael Henry Heim
A funny, despairing, satirical, compassionate, sprawling, gloomy, provocative, prophetic, angry, and entertaining book. One of the most important novels ever written in Canada. --Canadian Forum
It is magnificent! . . . It marks an exceptional moment in history . . . It is a magnum opus. --Milan Kundera
It is a relief to read him, to know that there are still writers like him who have things to say that are vitally important for all of us . . . What he writes about rivets the soul. --Alan Sillitoe
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Softcover. Condition: Fair. Unbekannte Unterschrift / Widmung; Verschmutzung; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is let loose to roam between past and present, adopting whatever identity that he chooses or has been imposed upon him by History. As adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, The Engineer of Human Souls is worthy of the subtitle Skvorecky gave it: "An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death.". Seller Inventory # 71f6af8c-581b-466f-99dd-0a4e2a95d26a
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ISBN 10: 0330291521
ISBN 13: 9780330291521
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Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60111097: 1986. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur acceptable. 571 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. Seller Inventory # RO60111097