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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, which is set in the shadow of the Communist regime, jazz becomes the means by which a jaded young man plots the seduction of a mysterious girl enmeshed in superstition and the occult. Spurned, but fascinated, he is drawn into her tortured existence until catapulted into the final bitter comedy.
In The Bass Saxophone a young Czechoslovakian student living under the rule of the Nazis is lured by his love of jazz - the "forbidden music" - into secretly and dangerously playing in a German band, with bizarre and unexpected results.
Written with the lyrical intensity of a great jazz performance, these two extraordinary novellas are among Skvorecky's finest works.
In Emoke, which is set in the shadow of the Communist regime, jazz becomes the means by which a jaded young man plots the seduction of a mysterious girl enmeshed in superstition and the occult. Spurned, but fascinated, he is drawn into her tortured existence until catapulted into the final bitter comedy.
In The Bass Saxophone a young Czechoslovakian student living under the rule of the Nazis is lured by his love of jazz - the "forbidden music" - into secretly and dangerously playing in a German band, with bizarre and unexpected results.
Written with the lyrical intensity of a great jazz performance, these two extraordinary novellas are among Skvorecky's finest works.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0701123184
- ISBN 13 9780701123185
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages185
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Book Description hard cover with dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Translation of the author's Bassaxofon and Legenda Emoke by Kaca Polackova-Henley. Includes bibliographical references. 20 cm. 186 pages VG/VG. Light shelf wear and soiling to dust jacket with a small scuffed area on top front, a little soiling to page edges, overall very good condition. Seller Inventory # 10830
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Book Description Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st UK Edition. VG++, Mild wear & offset sunning from the jacket/VG+, Edgewear, small label removal abrasion to front panel. Satire. Photo on request. Seller Inventory # 035320
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. 186 pp. Dustjacket, now protected in easily removable archival mylar, is not price clipped but has edgewear including a closed tear to rear panel and is a little soiled. Sticker residue and abrasion to front panel of dustjacket. Red cloth boards are clean and square, with some bumping to ends of backstrip. Faint dust foxing to upper edge of text block. Internally clean, bright and solidly bound. "But jazz is decadent bourgeois music," I was told, for that is what the Soviet Press had hammered into Russian heads. "It's my music," I said, "and I wouldn't give up jazz for a world revolution." -- Langston Hughes Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 002284
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