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The sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch : a grotesque romanetto / Ladislav Klíma ; translated from the Czech by Carleton Bulkin ; illustrations by Michal Vavrečka.
LIBRA - Special PG5038.K573 U8713 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klíma, Ladislav, 1878-1928.
- Standardized Title:
- Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha. English
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Czech literature--20th century.
- Czech literature.
- Princes--Germany--Fiction.
- Princes.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Diary fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Prague : Twisted Spoon Press ; Gardena, CA : Distributed in North America by SCB Distributors, 2000.
- Summary:
- Kl'ma believed that philosophy cannot be limited to speaking or writing; it must be lived. This led him to embark on a lifelong pursuit of becoming God, which he equated with Absolute Will. Drawing his greatest inspiration from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, he developed his conceps of will and radical subjectivism in numerous essays, aphorisms, prose works and plays. In Kl'ma's only full-length work of fiction, and his only work translated into English, a series of journal entries chronicles Prince Sternenhoch's descent into madness. The German empire's top aristocrat and the Kaiser's favorite, Sternenhoch become the "lowliest worm" at the hands of his wife, Helga, the Queen of Hells, yet eventually attains an ultimate state of bliss and salvation. Kl'ma explores here the paradoxical nature of pure spirituality with dark absurdist humor and comically grotesque, often obscene episodes.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Utrpení knížete sternenhocha.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Klíma, Ladislav, 1878-1928. Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha. English. Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch.
- ISBN:
- 8086264106
- 9788086264103
- OCLC:
- 45623497
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