A sensitive person : a novel / Jáchym Topol ; translated by Alex Zucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Topol, Jáchym, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Zucker, Alex, 1964- translator.

Series:

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actors--Fiction.

Actors.

Czechs in literature.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic's greatest living author.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Translator's Introduction

1. Bristol Globe. Why he addresses both. Night flight. Sona in the morning. The notebook. The tattooed boy. Camp on fire. Piss off! Eleanor and her boys. And onward

2. TRAVELERS-NO HOLIDAYS! Exasperated officer. Memory of Slovakia, memory of love. About the leg. About addiction. On the bridge. Under the bridge: a symphony of the universe

3. Charleville, les poètes maudits. Securing provisions. Preparing the performance. Brielle and onward. To Munich. Zoshchenko's end. To the land of chill

4. Moments in spa culture. Commissioner hot on the trail. Where to hide the funds. Keleti pu. Ivan and Vaska. Drama at the pool. Swimmers' tragedy. Who's playing Othello? Where'd Iggy fly out of?

5. Father, give me mask! The Ajvars. Vision of a spiritual state. On literature. Surprise attack. The great Gérard and the little monk. Celebration of Novorossiya-unsuccessful. A political discussion. Turnoff to Slovakia. The Citadel

6. Armed forces-we are many! In the monastery catacombs. Glowing machines. Dead vacationers. On marriage and children. Who's on the other side of the hatch. We'll see! And start prayin

7. The Carpathians. Snina Pass. What Serafion has that pulses and beats. Divine dancing. Lucky us! Master of the pass. Sona . . . On the D1

8. On the D1. The bridge in Porící. A mention of the painting of the Virgin. Insects and broken glass. Splendid plans. Sona, is that you? It's taken care of. Males. In the shower and outside the shower: Mama

9. Lady cop. Citizens' assembly. Richie the scout. Bašta, lord of the junkyard. A little diffierent kind of hospice. Hun raids. River cleansing. Getting through to the hospital. Big boys don't cry.

10. Gathering of the clan. A laugh with the envelope. Breathing under a cloth, growing, getting heavy. The man with the pans. Into the storm. Something from the sky. The Great Pyšely Fair. Bison appears. And the girl

11. Really, Ma? Máta. The tank. A Russian whore spun from the same yarn. Tirade against the head of state. Where's Monca? Crawling and sucking. Misimpression at the door. Scarf with strawberries, etc

12. With a carriage. You'll be fine at Monca's. If anyone, even someone malevolent . . . Shooting gallery promenade. The terrifying flying log. Helping hands. The redhead again. Escape

13. In the garage. Lomoz. Máta's train trip. Monca. Kája: Prague-East and D1. The plane. Being a piece of meat. Potassium. Arrival of the whores

14. A couple slaps in the dark. Which way to Mestecko? It's not so much the fucking. But? Howdy, Brona! Bronek's elder. What kina jail you think I'd get? Chlum

15. Black Lukáš. Leak-free morgue. High up amid the shreds of plaster . . . A warrior's death. I want you to exist

16. To Mestecko. Pious flock. About Lukáš. A mention of Prokop. The Devil's Furrow. The mystery of the Old Log Cabins. In the bends . . . The mill, new snack bar

17. With the wheelbarrow. He who walks with horns. Ruthless invaders. Garden colony. And striding noiselessly amid the roar of the water

18. The Water Goblin gang. Crossbow threat. Little calf. Newscast. Where's Lojda? Flushed and smiling

19. Reunion with Scales the fisherman. Her fading face. At home with Scales. Washed-up stuff. Love in the shack. The colonists' revenge. Into the boat. And in the flow

20. Bridal salon. The girls, the operation. Monca's tricks. Monca's a good one. The cesspit. Riders of righteousness. A disputation on progress. Transformed riverbanks.

21. Long Slope. Old Hrom, young Hrom. The arrival of the Cardinal. Vendulka. Tied up. A contract. How happiness is made. New Czechs. A fateful toast

22. Shakespeare again. On life without heat. Repeat encounter. Shot through a bag. Bison's squad. Petting and a moment of bliss. You can tell me

23. You'll be back. Drying out. The scrapyard burial ground. Cutaná, moms, non-moms. How Napalm came into the picture. Campsite. Mock me all you want, enjoy! Lomoz's hard slog

24. The jubilee gift megaproject. A slice of local history. Research. Reconnaissance work midstream. Work on dry land. The raising. Solder's promise

25. Sandbank. The apparition of the riders. Battle in the water. Doubts about the devil. What the little guy needs . . . and which way they're floating. Roaring water. The coal barge

26. Waiting for Solder. A slice of military history. Macinka's horror. Killer from the water. Solder's bull's- eye. Napalm: Back then on the bridge. Miran's decision. Miran's the oldest!

27. Napalm's talk with the fisherman. On theology. Dora' Where to take the Virgin. What Napalm dreams of

28. Hygiene onboard ship. Captain Lojda. Gorgeous fur. The story of the Old Log Cabins. Booze colony. Máta and what he left behind. Máta and the man with the pans

29. Mirošovice. Trešen and his mommy. What possessed Máta. Gathering on the bank of the Sázava. A meeting with the president. Kory's opinion. Kory is amazed

30. Venda's proposal. Under the bridge and beyond. Ruženka and the moon, its face. And even further beyond

31. They meet Skeeter. Unfortunate in the cave. Aunt My Goodness. Lojda's place. Stadium, more like a soccer field. Prodigious love. What Lojda put down on paper. What Máta left behind. Will you help me?.

32. Who and what they fished out. Attack. Mountain's end. Richie's hidden treasure. Discovery in the captain's cabin. On the raft

33. Monca . . . guardian of the salon. Stooking a person. The arrival of the pious flock. Lukáš and Lomoz. That instinct again. Hellhouse. So what? In the bushes

34. Sitting around the fisherman. A banquet. On the Virgin. The tattooed boy again-a lesson in humanism. And the cavalcade sallies forth. Pražma. I respect old folks, but . . . Bitten breast

35. Venca Bajer. Defective pooch. More cinematography. Lomoz's bet. Crossbow versus pinecone. Request for walnut schnapps. Into the cave

36. Napalm torn from a dream. Arrival of the cavalcade. The idol's imperfection. Lost brother. Handcuffs. Road closure. The lovers-inquisitive Svetlana. Tiny king. Apparition through the shrubs

37. In the guardhouse, dread and bleakness. We have liberated you . . . braht! Beating, pounding. A little masonry

38. Tracks and viewing slit. A siren falls silent. Last warrior. Through the gully and the woods. By the water with Monta. And onto shore.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-26909-9

OCLC:

1343248816