Josef Skvorecky: 2 books
by Josef Skvorecky
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophonebrilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas.
In Emoke,...
by Josef Skvorecky
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In a not-so-long-ago time, on an army base in rural Czechoslovakia, the draftees of the Seventh Tank Battalion gird themselves for the inevitable war with America by practicing tank manoeuvres (or faking them), studying Russian texts (with horror novels tucked inside), and singing patriotic songs...