Josef Jedlicka (56 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Journeyof Our Life flew in the face of the reigning aesthetic of socialist realism, an anti-heroic novel informed by the literary theory of Viktor Shklovsky and constructed from episodes and lyrical sketches of the author and his neighbors' everyday life in industrial north Bohemia, set against a backdrop of historical and cultural upheaval. Meditative and speculative reflections here alternate and overlap with fragmentary accounts of Jedlicka's own biography and slices of the lives of people around him, typically rendered as overheard conversations. The narrative passages range in chronology from May 1945 to the early 1950s, with sporadic leaps through time as the characters go about the business of "building a new society" and the mythology that goes with it. Due to its critical view of socialist society, Midway remained unpublished until 1966, amid the easing of cultural control, but a complete version of this darkly comic novel did not appear in Czech until 1994.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 8vo, 192 pp. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket).

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: new.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakias postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Journeyof Our Life flew in the face of the reigning aesthetic of socialist realism, an anti-heroic novel informed by the literary theory of Viktor Shklovsky and constructed from episodes and lyrical sketches of the author and his neighbors everyday life in industrial north Bohemia, set against a backdrop of historical and cultural upheaval. Meditative and speculative reflections here alternate and overlap with fragmentary accounts of Jedlickas own biography and slices of the lives of people around him, typically rendered as overheard conversations. The narrative passages range in chronology from May 1945 to the early 1950s, with sporadic leaps through time as the characters go about the business of building a new society and the mythology that goes with it. Due to its critical view of socialist society, Midway remained unpublished until 1966, amid the easing of cultural control, but a complete version of this darkly comic novel did not appear in Czech until 1994. Written in the years 1954-57 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, Midway upon the Journey of Our Life flew in the face of the reigning aesthetic of socialist realism, an anti-heroic novella informed by the literary theory of Viktor Shklovsky and constructed from episodes and lyrical sketches of the author and his neighbors' everyday life in industrial north Bohemia, set against a backdrop of historical and cultural upheaval. Jedlicka, like many if not most intellectuals of his generation, was a member of the Communist Party when it came to power in February 1948, but by fall he had resigned, and shortly after, as a result, he was expelled from his studies in ethnography and esthetics at Charles University in Prague. In 1952 he and his wife had a son, and when she was offered a position as a doctor in the border town of Litvinov in 1953, the family moved. Jedlicka worked odd jobs as a laborer and tutor, with occasional freelance assignments for radio, TV and magazines, while writing Midway at night. The title of the book comes from the opening line of Inferno from Dante's Divine Comedy. For Jedlicka, Litvinov was hell. Meditative and speculative reflections here alternate and overlap with fragmentary accounts of Jedlicka's own biography and slices of the lives of the people around him, typically rendered as overheard conversations. The narrative passages range in chronology from May 1945 to the early '50s, with sporadic leaps back and forth as the "characters" go about the business of "building a new society" and the mythology that goes with it. Jedlicka and his family were residents of the Koldum (Collective House), a grandiose socialist architectural project of communal living that fails in ways comic and tragicomic alike. Jedlicka doesn't neglect to portray the era's most momentous events, including the February 25, 1948, speech by Czechoslovakia's first Communist president, Klement Gottwald, on Prague's Old Town Square, which readers of Kundera will recognize from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and which Jedlicka witnessed firsthand. But while Kundera was concerned with the grand sweep of history, Jedlicka zeroes in on more personal and quotidian features of the new order. Due to its critical view of socialist society, Jedlicka was not able to publish Midway until 1966, after the easing of cultural control. Even then, however, parts of the book were censored, and the complete version did not appear until 1994. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: New. pp. 150.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 192 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. Translator(s): Zucker, Alex. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 189 x 21. Weight in Grams: 360. . 2016. Hardcover. . . . .

Condition: New. pp. 150.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Condition: New. Translator(s): Zucker, Alex. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 189 x 21. Weight in Grams: 360. . 2016. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Softcover. Condition: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Kniha Ceske typy obsahuje "ironicke analyzy typickych ceskych vlastnosti na zaklade znamych literarnich typu". Tedy venuje se predevsim nasi narodni povaze, kterou maji cesti literarni hrdinove odrazet. (Babicka - sklony k idylicnosti, Otec Kondelik - malomestactvi).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschurfungen / Risse / Knicke. Kniha Ceske typy obsahuje "ironicke analyzy typickych ceskych vlastnosti na zaklade znamych literarnich typu". Tedy venuje se predevsim nasi narodni povaze, kterou maji cesti literarni hrdinove odrazet. (Babicka - sklony k idylicnosti, Otec Kondelik - malomestactvi).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Verschmutzung / Wasserschaden; Abnutzung / Risse - deutlich.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Anmerkungen / bekritzelt / Stempel; Verschmutzung / Wasserschaden; Aus Bibliothek aussortiert; Abnutzung / Risse - leicht. Tento roman vysel poprve v roce 1966 v cenzurovanem vydani, v plnem zneni vysla kniha v roce 1994. Ve volnem toku myslenek, pribehu a poznamek se zde kriticky nahlizi na realitu padesatych let. Autor priblizuje pocatecni nadseni a odhodlani budovat socialismus. Pribehy se odehravaji v Praze a v Litvinove. Na atmosferu doby se zde nahlizi velice kriticky. V kratkych pribezich jsou zde nastineny osudy lidi z ruznych odvetvi, od soukromnika- zhotovitele rakvi, ktereho rezim pripravil o zivnost. Vdovy po lekari, ktera je ve sve samote vdecna za lidske slovo. Az po delniky dojizdejici po ranu do tovaren a po vecerech chodicich do verernich skol. Veskera atmosfera je diky neobvykle literarni forme licena velice sugestivne.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Verschmutzung / Wasserschaden; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Tento roman vysel poprve v roce 1966 v cenzurovanem vydani, v plnem zneni vysla kniha v roce 1994. Ve volnem toku myslenek, pribehu a poznamek se zde kriticky nahlizi na realitu padesatych let. Autor priblizuje pocatecni nadseni a odhodlani budovat socialismus. Pribehy se odehravaji v Praze a v Litvinove. Na atmosferu doby se zde nahlizi velice kriticky. V kratkych pribezich jsou zde nastineny osudy lidi z ruznych odvetvi, od soukromnika- zhotovitele rakvi, ktereho rezim pripravil o zivnost. Vdovy po lekari, ktera je ve sve samote vdecna za lidske slovo. Az po delniky dojizdejici po ranu do tovaren a po vecerech chodicich do verernich skol. Veskera atmosfera je diky neobvykle literarni forme licena velice sugestivne.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. [MEMOIR]. Vladimir Skutina, Josef Jedlicka. "Presidentuv Vezen (The President's Prisoner) [Czech]." Munich: CCC Books, 1971. Czech language. Softcover with graphic wrappers and French flaps. Nonfiction memoir of the author's time in prison for disparaging the president Antonin Novotny. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. 6 oz. 112 pp. Shelf-wear to wrappers. Rubbed edges. Text clean. Very Good Plus. No ISBN. No ASIN. "A book about Skutina's (1931-1995) personal experiences from the period of political imprisonment in Kartouzy prison in 1962-1963. Skutina was convicted of fabricated 'disparaging of the President of the Republic' Antonin Novotny. Skutina was a Czech writer, playwright, journalist, screenwriter, and television producer. He was a leading television reporter for the events of the 1968 Prague Spring, and is closely associated with that event in the minds of the Czech public. His use of political satire led to his arrest and imprisonment from 1962 through 1963, and again from 1969 through 1974. His signing of Charter 77, a document describing human rights abuses by the Czech government, led to further disfavor with the government which resulted in his exile in Switzerland from 1974 until the early 1990s when he returned to live in Prague.".

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Condition: As New. Soubor peti eseju z druhe poloviny 60. let se zameruje predevsim na problematiku osamelosti cloveka v odcizenem svete, postaveni a odpovednosti jednotlivce v case, vztahu k trvalym hodnotam a tradici. Prvni esej Ornament, ktery dava nazev cele knize, pojednava o odcizeni cloveka nasledkem snizeni dorozumeni. Ornament bere Jedlicka jako negativni hodnotu. Je pouhou ozdobou bez vnitrniho vyznamu. Nasledujici esej Tradice hleda pozitivni vychodisko, jakousi stredni cestu pristupu k minulosti. Pokud je lpeni na tradici prilis dukladne, prekazi samostatnemu a jedinecnemu tvorivemu cinu. Naopak odpor k tradici je v krajni podobe odmitnutim vzpominky. Treti esej Odvaha dava duraz na potrebu subjektivniho, misty az absurdniho cinu jednotlivce, ktery je podminkou lidske existence. Prave takovym jedincem je pro Jedlicku Ivan Divis, jemuz venuje esej Riziko spolehlivosti. Soustredi se zde na jeho vzpominkove dilo Teorie spolehlivosti, ktere je jakymsi precedentnim systemem hodnot platnym pro zivot. Posledni esej Domov vyvzdorovany pojednava o osobnosti ceskeho krajinare Bohdana Kopeckeho jako jednoho z umelcu, kteri utvareji predstavu domova.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Kniha Josefa Jedlicky, jednoho z nejzajimavejsich ceskych povalecnych autoru, nese podtitul"Poptavka po nasem hrdinovi" - a samotny text se teto poptavce snazi vyhovet. Jinymi slovy, Josef Jedlicka se v jedenacti esejich, venovanych mj. Babicce B. Nemcove, Haskovu Svejkovi, hloupemu Honzovi, Baarovu Cimburovi, Machovu Vilemovi apod., snazi skrze peclive a napadite cteni klasickych del ceske literatury nalezt typickeho ceskeho hrdinu, prijit na to, kdo vlastne jsme, odkud a kam jako narod kracime. Jednotlive texty puvodne vznikaly v sedmdesatych letech jako rozhlasove fejetony radia Svobodna Evropa, kde Josef Jedlicka pusobil jako redaktor pote, co odesel do exilu - a fejetonisticka lehkost v nejlepsim slova smyslu zdobi celou knihu: nejedna se o zdlouhave rozebirani slavnych knih, nybrz o svizne, elegantni zamysleni nad ceskou narodni povahou.

143 Seiten Zustand: keine Beschädigungen, keine Eintragungen. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten gut. cs Gewicht in Gramm: 250 Hardcover kartoniert, mit Schutzumschlag.