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The narrator has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress ? an essay on Kafka ? and exchanged his writer?s pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively, on his passionate and adulterous love affair with the sculptress Daria.
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Ivan Klima was born in 1931 in Prague. He was the editor of the journal of the Czech Writer’s Union during the Prague Spring.
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