Neruda Prague Tales

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-963-386-465-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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This is a collection of Jan Neruda's intimate, wry, bittersweet stories of life among the inhabitants of the Little Quarter of nineteenth-century Prague. These finely tuned and varied vignettes established Neruda as the quintessential Czech nineteenth-century realist, the Charles Dickens of a Prague becoming ever more aware of itself as a Czech rather than an Austrian city.

Prague Tales is a classic by a writer whose influence has been acknowledged by generations of Czech writers, including Ivan Klíma, who contributes an introduction to this new translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neruda, Jan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Heim, Michael Henry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Ivan Klíma

A Week in a Quiet House
- In Night Clothes
- Most of the House Begins to Stir
- At Home with the Landlord
- A Lyrical Monologue
- Bachelorhood is Bliss
- A Manuscript and a Storm Cloud
- Fragments from the Notes of a Scrivener
- At the Funeral
- Further Proof of the Pudding
- In a Moment of Agitation
- A First Attempt at Fiction
- Five Minutes after the Recital
- After the Draw
- A Happy Family
- The Week Draws to a Close

Mr Ryšánek and Mr Schlegel

A Beggar Brought to Ruin

The Tender Heart of Mrs Rus

Evening Chitchat

Doctor Spoiler

The Water Sprite

How Mr Vorel Broke in His Meerschaum

The Three Lilies

The St Wenceslas Mass

How It Came to Pass

Written This Year on All Souls’ Day

Figures

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Neruda, Jan
Jan Neruda, Czech poet, novelist, essayist and journalist (1834-1891) was both radical and European in outlook. Born of a poor family in 1834, he knew at first hand the life he evoked in Prague Tales. The stories in this collection date from the 1860s and 70s and reflect Neruda’s enthusiasm for feuilletons, vivid sketches on the border between journalism and fiction.