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Bezig met laden... Rivers of Babylon (1991)door Peter Pišťanek
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. According to Tim Beasley-Murray's review in the TLS (Feb. 29, 2008), this book, which is the first part of a trilogy, has "changed Slovak literature beyond recognition" and is "a worthy heir to Rabelais, Balzac and Gogol." Much to my chagrin, I don't know anything about Slovak arts and letters--aside from my own voluminous email correspondence, my unfinished novel about gypsies, and a recent vicious haiku binge--so perhaps I owe it to my countrymen to read this. (It actually sounds kind of funny, too.) Slovakia. Pišťanek takes a romp through an almost-post-Communist state in which Communism and capitalism are equally and cynically skewered. The anti-hero protagonist mulishly pursues his own ends and tragicomically geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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It is 1989. Across Central Europe, socalism is crumbling, and robber capitalism is being born. Rivers of Babylon tells this story of a Central Europe, where criminals, intellectuals and secret policemen have infiltrated a new democracy, through the eyes of Racz, sociopathic gangster and idiot of genius. Slovak readers acknowledge Peter Pist'anek as their most flamboyant and fearless writer, stripping the nation of its myths and false self-esteem. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)891.87Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) SlovakLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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