Ploughshares into Swords.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vančura, Vladislav.

Contributor:

Short, David, Translator.

Chitnis, Rajendra, Author of afterword, colophon, etc.

Series:

Modern Czech Classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe, Eastern--Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Prague : Karolinum Press, 2022.

Summary:

The first English-language translation of a classic Czech antiwar novel written in the wake of WWI. Originally published in 1925, Tilled Fields and Battlefields is an expressionist antiwar novel in which Vladislav Vanura tells the story of the denizens of the Ouhrov estate in language as baroque as the manor that ties them all together. The fragmented narrative introduces the reader to such characters as the Baron Danowitz, his sons, his French concubine, the farmhand Frantisek Hora, and the mentally disabled murderer eka in the autumn of 1913, before revealing their fates during World War I. Ranging from the peaceful farmlands of Bohemia to the battlefields of Galicia, taking in the pubs of Budapest and the hospitals of Krakow, the novel constitutes an unsentimental and naturalistic approach to the war that created Czechoslovakia. Tilled Fields and Battlefields is a stunning novel by one of Czech literature's most important writers. This modernist masterpiece, reminiscent of the work of Isaac Babel and William Faulkner, is now available in English for the very first time.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Translator's notes

Afterword

About the author

About the Translator

Modern Czech Classics.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9788024648101

8024648105

9788024648088

8024648083

OCLC:

1293736091