The spirit of Prague and other essays
Klíma, Ivan1994
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Ivan Klima was a witness to the Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the Prague Spring in 1968, the resistance of Charter 77 and the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Klima invokes the spirit of Prague and the people that have shaped and sustained him throughout his writing career.
Main title:
The spirit of Prague and other essays / Ivan Klíma ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson.
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Imprint:
London : Granta in association with Penguin Books, c1994.
Collation:
188p. ; 20cm.
Notes:
Translation from the Czech.
ISBN:
9780140140682 (pbk)
Local class:
943.704
Language:
EnglishCzech
BRN:
306200