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- catalog abstract ""Alongside Milan Kundera's The Joke, The Axe was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslovakia during the cultural reawakening of the 1960s. Blending lyricism and iconoclasm, Vaculik portrays a culture in upheaval through the timeless story of father and son, joined by idealism but separated by a changing world." "It is the mid-1960s, and in Czechoslovakia communist ideology is fading. One disillusioned, middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his childhood. There he rediscovers a complex relationship with his dead father, a crusader for communism in the early days, who reappears through letters written decades earlier." "When the narrator is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader - but the stakes now are reversed. He finds new relevance in his father's words: "An extraordinary time requires extraordinary measures." But now the son continues, "I followed the Party line in the first phase of my political life. In the next phase I tried to get rid of it when it prevented me from thinking for myself.""--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Sekyra. English".
- catalog contributor b3838516.
- catalog contributor b3838517.
- catalog coverage "Czechoslovakia Fiction.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""Alongside Milan Kundera's The Joke, The Axe was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslovakia during the cultural reawakening of the 1960s. Blending lyricism and iconoclasm, Vaculik portrays a culture in upheaval through the timeless story of father and son, joined by idealism but separated by a changing world." "It is the mid-1960s, and in Czechoslovakia communist ideology is fading. One disillusioned, middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his childhood. There he rediscovers a complex relationship with his dead father, a crusader for communism in the early days, who reappears through letters written decades earlier."".
- catalog description ""When the narrator is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader - but the stakes now are reversed. He finds new relevance in his father's words: "An extraordinary time requires extraordinary measures." But now the son continues, "I followed the Party line in the first phase of my political life. In the next phase I tried to get rid of it when it prevented me from thinking for myself.""--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "222 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0810110180 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng cze".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Czechoslovakia Fiction.".
- catalog subject "891.8/635 20".
- catalog subject "Father and son relationships Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PG5039.32.A2 S413 1994".
- catalog title "Sekyra. English".
- catalog title "The axe / Ludvík Vaculík ; translated from the Czech by Marian Sling.".
- catalog type "text".