The Engineer of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life,Women,Fate,Dreams,the Working Class, Secret Agents,Love and Death (Vintage Classics)
Language: English
Published by Vintage 17-Mar-94, 1994
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- Title
- The Engineer of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life,Women,Fate,Dreams,the Working Class, Secret Agents,Love and Death (Vintage Classics)
- Author
- Josef Skvorecky
- Publisher
- Vintage 17-Mar-94
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0099386410
- ISBN 13
- 9780099386414
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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.
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