{"id":787,"date":"2024-07-12T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluh2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=787"},"modified":"2024-07-12T17:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:22:02","slug":"voliery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/voliery\/","title":{"rendered":"Voli\u00e9ry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Josef \u0160kvoreck\u00fd Award 2016<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\u201c… a lesson in literary phantasmagoria \u2013 not for the faint of heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 The Arkansas International<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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About the Book<\/summary>\n
Original Title<\/strong><\/td>Voli\u00e9ry<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/strong><\/td>2016<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>Druh\u00e9 M\u011bto, Brno<\/td><\/tr>
Pages<\/strong><\/td>128<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
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United States <\/strong><\/td>Twisted Spoon – Prague<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Few in Czech literature have been able to be so consistent in not writing needlessly. And few have invested as much of their lives in their writing as Zuzana Brabcov\u00e1. Her final book, Aviaries<\/em>, an intimate diary account of her neurotically hypersensitive perception of the world around us, is proof of this. As in her previous works, her work with language is spellbinding, pulsing from stark record to sublime metaphor, from lyrical postures to vulgarity, laying bare themes of loneliness and lostness in a world that has ceased to make sense. Records of the banality of everyday life shift here to general, symbolic, statements. Instead of being philosophical, they shock by exposing the grotesque – as if the present only generates black humour, bizarreness, puffery and emptiness. The pilgrim has inspected the world and has nowhere to go. The paradise of the heart, of one’s own inner self, is no more. Aviaries<\/em> is a black pearl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aviaries<\/em> was shortlisted for the Magnesia Litera Award 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWith its sharp sense of the absurd but also grounded in the all too-real contemporary world, Brabcov\u00e1 effectively presents a dark-hued picture of the present.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 The Complete Review<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c’Aviaries’ is anchored in history, politics, satire, and humor. Stalin, Mozart, and even Proust lend height and sound to its metaphors. In turn, the news of the day, of every day in every place, lend the dose of reality against which all minds must end their race to feel. But what is most important about this, the last of Brabcov\u00e1\u2019s gifts, what makes it deserving of a place in the most minimalist of bookshelves, is its honest, overwhelming beauty, its celebration of language, imagery, and humanity, and its tribute to all of life, observed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 New York Journal of Books<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cComposed like a twenty-first century flashback to Nikolai Gogol\u2019s \u201cDiary of a Madman,\u201d Zuzana Brabcov\u00e1\u2019s excellent, final novel Aviaries is a surrealist collage of memories, anxieties, and fantasies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Rain Taxi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Twisted Spoon, Prague, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Tereza Novick\u00e1<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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(Aviaries) Josef \u0160kvoreck\u00fd Award 2016 \u201c… a lesson in literary phantasmagoria \u2013 not for the faint of heart.\u201d \u2014 The Arkansas International Few in Czech literature have been able to be so consistent in not writing needlessly. And few have invested as much of their lives in their writing as Zuzana Brabcov\u00e1. Her final book, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":790,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-787","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}