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Judge On Trial

door Ivan Klima

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Judge On Trial is Ivan Kl-ma's epic novel about those who stayed in Prague after 1968. When middle-aged judge Adam Kindl is asked not only to try a double murder case but is also expected to find the accused guilty it is his own shattered faith in the political system that is put on trial. To understand the crises he is experiencing in both his professional and personal life, Adam has to confront his own and his country's past which has been mis-shapen first by Nazism, then Stalinism, the false hope of the Prague Spring and the collaborationist regime that followed.… (meer)
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In 1945 the Russians liberated Czechoslovakia from the Germans. In 1968 the Russian tanks entered the country again, bringing to an end the Prague Spring.
Klima wrote this book in 1978. The artists and intellectuals who joined committees, signed petitions and wrote the truth in 1968 have finished their prison sentences and are working as labourers.

In 1968 Adam Kindle had been in America, so he had avoided the political errors of his friends. As a judge and party member he follows instructions; he jails innocent people who have been denounced by party hacks. To do otherwise would be to risk being prosecuted himself.

Adam's principles adapt themselves to party policies; an exception is his opposition to the death penalty. He is given a murder case to try and instructed to find the accused guilty and demand his execution. Adam's marriage has disintegrated; he is being threatened by party functionaries; he is under investigation and every detail of his private life is known.

Sections headed "Before we drink from the waters of Lethe", trace Adam's life from childhood to the present, showing how he became the man he is now.

This is a chilling account of totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia. ( )
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Ivan Klimaprimaire auteuralle editiesberekend
Brain, A. G.VertalerSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
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Judge On Trial is Ivan Kl-ma's epic novel about those who stayed in Prague after 1968. When middle-aged judge Adam Kindl is asked not only to try a double murder case but is also expected to find the accused guilty it is his own shattered faith in the political system that is put on trial. To understand the crises he is experiencing in both his professional and personal life, Adam has to confront his own and his country's past which has been mis-shapen first by Nazism, then Stalinism, the false hope of the Prague Spring and the collaborationist regime that followed.

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