A Tale of Two Worlds (CEU Press Classics)
Language: English
Published by Central European University Press, 2014
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
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- Title
- A Tale of Two Worlds (CEU Press Classics)
- Author
- Novak, Vjenceslav
- Publisher
- Central European University Press
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 6155225826
- ISBN 13
- 9786155225826
- Edition
- First edition.
- Dimensions
- 5 inches width by 7.99 inches height by 0.98 inches depth
In this novel, written by the esteemed novelist in 1901, a provincial composer and organist from Croatia struggles to find his way along the perilous frontier between the worlds of artistic vocation and humdrum family life. The local kapellmeister―-a Czech, in good Habsburg tradition, and a confidant of Gaj and Palacky, influential politicians of the time―-recognizes young Amadej Zlatanic as a prodigy and persuades the stingy mayor and stubborn parish priest to pack the teenager off to the conservatory in Prague. After several years of sordid student purgatory, Amadej returns to Croatia―-ready for love and ready to make great art.The world of Central Europe in the 1860s flows past, and Amadej tries to keep abreast of political change. At the same time he ducks and dodges predatory relatives and townspeople in his native district, to which he has returned for the sake of employment. Despite his marriage to the impressionable and vulnerable local beauty, Adelka, and his devotion to their daughter Veruska, Amadej is sorely troubled by the political corruption and isolation of Croatia. His wife takes ill and his family is poor. Yet ultimately it is the vulgar, populist notion of Croatian identity―-symbolized by the worship of the tamburica, a local musical instrument―-that crushes Amadej's career. As it does so, he contemplates the two worlds of national greatness, amidst the Croatian national awakening, and international fame. Finally, frustrated beyond relief by unsuccessful affairs both amorous and professional, and tortured by the philistinism surrounding him, Amadej leaves the world of sanity for a mind-blowing descent into the maniacal and inescapable world of hallucination, paganism, and paranoia.
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About the Author
Vjenceslav Novak (1859–1905) was a Croatian realist writer and dramatist, author of modern psychological poetry with occult themes.
John K. Cox is professor at North Dakota State University in Fargo.
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