Ivan Klima
Auteur de Love and Garbage
A propos de l'auteur
Author and playwright Ivan Klima was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1931. In 1968, he acted as an editor for the journal of the Czech Writer's Union. Following that, he was briefly a professor at the University of Michigan before returning to his homeland in 1970. His works, which include The afficher plus Spirit of Prague, a collection of essays, were banned in Czechoslovakia until 1989. They address issues such as totalitarianism and intellectual freedom, which Klima also lectures on. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Ivan Klima
Má veselá jitra 1 exemplaire
Progress in Prague (in Granta: Losers - BUFORD) 1 exemplaire
Markétin zvěřinec 1 exemplaire
Karpene : en julefortelling om sammensvergelser 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Description of a Struggle: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writing (1994) — Introduction — 77 exemplaires
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributeur — 72 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1931-09-14
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Tsjechoslowakije
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Tsjechië
- Lieu de naissance
- Praag, Tsjechië
- Lieux de résidence
- Praag, Tsjechië
- Professions
- toneelschrijver
romanschrijver
korteverhalenschrijver - Prix et distinctions
- Franz Kafka Prijs (2002)
- Courte biographie
- Ivan Klíma (Praag, 14 december 1931) verbleef tijdens de tweede wereldoorlog in het concentratiekamp Theresiënstadt. In de jaren vijftig studeerde hij Tsjechische taal- en letterkunde en begon in 1959 met het schrijven van prozawerken en toneelstukken. Hij maakte deel uit van de redactie van het literaire weekblad Literární noviny en trad op de voorgrond tijdens de Praagse Lente. Na de inval van 1968 door Warschautroepen kreeg hij een publicatieverbod: gedurende twintig jaar kon zijn werk uitsluitend in het buitenland verschijnen. Klíma zelf schreef hierover: ‘Ik ben een Tsjech. Dit is mijn land. Ik zal misschien jaren van mijn leven schrijven voor de bureaulade en mijn geld verdienen als straatveger, maar ik moet doen wat ik kan.’ Sinds de fluwelen revolutie van 1989 publiceert hij als nooit tevoren.
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Love and Garbage par Ivan Klíma
So very... czech. A nice visit to my old friends.
In 1945 the Russians liberated Czechoslovakia from the Germans. In 1968 the Russian tanks entered the country again, bringing to an end the Prague Spring.
Klima wrote this book in 1978. The artists and intellectuals who joined committees, signed petitions and wrote the truth in 1968 have finished their prison sentences and are working as labourers.
In 1968 Adam Kindle had been in America, so he had avoided the political errors of his friends. As a judge and party member he follows instructions; he jails innocent people who have been denounced by party hacks. To do otherwise would be to risk being prosecuted himself.
Adam's principles adapt themselves to party policies; an exception is his opposition to the death penalty. He is given a murder case to try and instructed to find the accused guilty and demand his execution. Adam's marriage has disintegrated; he is being threatened by party functionaries; he is under investigation and every detail of his private life is known.
Sections headed "Before we drink from the waters of Lethe", trace Adam's life from childhood to the present, showing how he became the man he is now.
This is a chilling account of totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia.… (plus d'informations)
Klima wrote this book in 1978. The artists and intellectuals who joined committees, signed petitions and wrote the truth in 1968 have finished their prison sentences and are working as labourers.
In 1968 Adam Kindle had been in America, so he had avoided the political errors of his friends. As a judge and party member he follows instructions; he jails innocent people who have been denounced by party hacks. To do otherwise would be to risk being prosecuted himself.
Adam's principles adapt themselves to party policies; an exception is his opposition to the death penalty. He is given a murder case to try and instructed to find the accused guilty and demand his execution. Adam's marriage has disintegrated; he is being threatened by party functionaries; he is under investigation and every detail of his private life is known.
Sections headed "Before we drink from the waters of Lethe", trace Adam's life from childhood to the present, showing how he became the man he is now.
This is a chilling account of totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia.… (plus d'informations)
This is the first Klima novel I've read. I enjoyed it on the whole - it never felt like a chore to get through, although there were times when it seemed to spin on its axis a little and I skimmed the occasional paragraph here and there. To discuss the plot would be to spoil it, so I'll leave it at that. If you're looking for another Milan Kundera out of the Czech Republic then maybe there's something for you here, but this is a far cry from 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being.'
My wife bought this one in London, read it and passed it graciously to me for the trip home.
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