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Alongside Kundera's The Joke, The Axe was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslovakia during the cultural awakening of the 1960s.

In late Sixties Czechoslovakia, communist ideology is failing. A disillusioned middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his youth. There he rediscovers the complex relationship with his dead father, a communist crusader. But when the journalist is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader--and that the stakes are now reversed.
About the Author: One of the outstanding Czech novelists of the postwar generation, LUDVIK VACULIK (1926-2015) has been a shoemaker, teacher, soldier, and journalist. His first novel, The Busy House, appeared in 1963. He edited Literarni Listy from 1966 until 1968, when it was suppressed by the government. His novel The Axe, published in 1966, made Vaculik famous in Czechoslovakia. Neal Ascherson describes this novel as "the story of a lonely farmer who deliberately destroys his own family relationships and friendships to bring socialist collectivization to his village in Moravia and who--through the very challenge that his own integrity offers to the corrupt Stalinist bureaucracy of the new order--is himself destroyed." Among the writers who criticized the Novotny regime at the Writers' Union Congress in 1967, Vaculik was expelled from the party but was readmitted during the Prague Spring of 1968. At this time Vaculik wrote the "Two Thousand Words" manifesto, which was signed by thousands and which some believe contributed to the Soviet leaders' decision to intervene militarily.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780810110182
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press
  • Depth: 19
  • Height: 196 mm
  • No of Pages: 223
  • Series Title: European Classics
  • Weight: 344 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0810110180
  • Publisher Date: 21 Dec 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 130 mm

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