Contemporary Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima has transformed his lifelong admiration for the work of the great Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek into an extended personal essay on Capek's life and work. Written with letters and other material not available to earlier biographers and critics, Klima reflects on the effects of the author's personal relationships and scrutinizes his artistic and philosophical influences. This is not merely a biography or a critical work covering all of Capek's writings; it is a ...
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Contemporary Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima has transformed his lifelong admiration for the work of the great Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek into an extended personal essay on Capek's life and work. Written with letters and other material not available to earlier biographers and critics, Klima reflects on the effects of the author's personal relationships and scrutinizes his artistic and philosophical influences. This is not merely a biography or a critical work covering all of Capek's writings; it is a wide-ranging study of the life and work of a great artist as examined from the perspective of another eminent writer who grew up in Capek's shadow.
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Very good in fine jacket. Size: 5x0x8; NOT an ex library book. Prior owner seal on front endpaper and title page. 224 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.
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NEAR FINE IN WRAPS. ADVANCED UNCORRECTED PROOFS / TRANSLATED FROM THE CZECH BY NORMA COMRADA. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK AND SLIGHT READER'S CREASING TO THE SPINE.
