Patrik Ouredník

The Opportune Moment, 1855 (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Zucker, Alex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The nineteenth-century founding of "free settlements" in the Americas serves as a starting point for the new novel by popular Czech author Patrik Ouredník. Simultaneously satiric and philosophical, The Opportune Moment, 1855, opens with an Italian anarchist's missive to his noble former mistress, an impassioned rejection of all of Europe's latest and greatest advancements, from the Enlightenment to social reform to communist revolution. We then leap back in time half a century to the alternately somber and hilarious shipboard diary of a common Italian everyman sailing to Brazil with a motley, multinational band of idealists, to build a new society. A pitiless portrait of the often unbridgeable gap between theory and practice, The Opportune Moment, 1855 is another uproarious and unsettling attack on convention by one of literature's great provocateurs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781564786500
• Artikelnr.: 41069499

Autorenporträt

Patrik Ou?ednik was born in Prague, but immigrated to France in 1984 where he still lives. He is the author of twlve books, including fiction, essays, and poems. He is also the Czech translator of novels, short stories, and plays from such writers as Francois Rabelais, Alfred Jarry, Raymond Queneau, Samuel Beckett, and Boris Vian. He has received a number of literary awards for his writing, including the Czech Literary Fund Award.