Seven Days to the Funeral

Jan Rozner

ISBN 10: 8024656337 / ISBN 13: 9788024656335

Published by Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Jun 2024, 2024

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Neuware - A dissident's deeply personal and unflinching view of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1968 invasion. Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalized memoir of Ján Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozner and his wife Zora Jesenská were champions of the Prague Spring and were blacklisted after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. When Jesenská died in 1972, her funeral became a political event and attendees faced recriminations. A painstaking account of the week after his wife's death, Seven Days to the Funeral is a historical record of the devastating impact of the period after the invasion. Through ruthless portraits of key figures in Slovak culture, the book provides a fascinating cultural history of Slovakia from 1945 to 1972. It is also a moving love story of an unlikely couple. Although Rozner began the book in 1976, it was left unfinished upon his death. The book was published posthumously in 2009 by his second wife Sláva Roznerová.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seven Days to the Funeral
• Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Jun 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8024656337
• ISBN 13: 9788024656335
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 190W x 130H x 30D millimeters 190 millimeters width by 130 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 502 grams

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Synopsis

A dissident's deeply personal and unflinching view of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1968 invasion.

Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalized memoir of Ján Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozner and his wife Zora Jesenská were champions of the Prague Spring and were blacklisted after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. When Jesenská died in 1972, her funeral became a political event and attendees faced recriminations.

A painstaking account of the week after his wife’s death, Seven Days to the Funeral is a historical record of the devastating impact of the period after the invasion. Through ruthless portraits of key figures in Slovak culture, the book provides a fascinating cultural history of Slovakia from 1945 to 1972. It is also a moving love story of an unlikely couple. Although Rozner began the book in 1976, it was left unfinished upon his death. The book was published posthumously in 2009 by his second wife Sláva Roznerová.

About the Authors

Ján Rozner (1922–2006) was a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator.

Julia and Peter Sherwood are based in London and work as freelance translators from and into a number of Central and East European languages. Julia Sherwood was born and grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia, and spent more than twenty years in the NGO sector in London before turning to freelance translation some ten years ago.

Peter and Julia Sherwood are based in London and work as freelance translators from and into a number of Central and East European languages. Peter Sherwood’s first translations from the Hungarian appeared fifty years ago, but he was an academic for over forty years before retiring and devoting himself more or less full-time to translating.