Prague Tales

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-963-9116-23-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: CEU Press Classics

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neruda, Jan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Heim, Michael Henry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Ivan Klíma, A Week in a Quiet House, 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)

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.