{"id":837,"date":"2024-07-12T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluh2.wordpress.com\/?page_id=837"},"modified":"2024-07-12T20:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:10:33","slug":"nezvestny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pluh.org\/index.php\/nezvestny\/","title":{"rendered":"Nezv\u011bstn\u00fd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u201cOne of the most original and moving novels of the year.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 The Chicago Sunday Times<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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About the Book<\/summary>\n
Original Title<\/strong><\/td>Nezv\u011bstn\u00fd<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/strong><\/td>1955<\/td><\/tr>
Publisher<\/strong><\/td>Nov\u00fd domov, Toronto<\/td><\/tr>
Pages<\/strong><\/td>249<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
The first edition was the Danish translation in 1951, followed by the English translation at Viking Press in New York in 1952. The Czech original was published by friends of the author in Toronto, Canada. It was not until 1994 that an official edition appeared in the Czech Republic itself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n
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Poland <\/strong><\/td>Ksi\u0105\u017ckowe Klimaty – Krakow<\/td><\/tr>
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Prague a couple of weeks before the communist putsch of February 1948. The young intellectual Erik Brunner, an opportunistic member of the communist party and working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is summoned to the Ministry of Interior. He is instructed to find Pavel Kr\u00e1l, an old acquaintance of him and the former lover of his wife Olga. As Josef K. from Kafka Erik gets entangled in a confusing game between the American and Czech secret services during the communist coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this novel Hostovsk\u00fd catches the dark atmosphere of Prague in these days of turmoil, full of fear, conspiracies and mistrust. He pushes the existentialist nature of his work to a new height, surely influenced by Franz Kafka and Graham Greene, though turning it into something new and original. A real classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first edition was the Danish translation in 1951, followed by the English translation at Viking Press in New York in 1952. The Czech original was published by friends of the author in Toronto, Canada. It was not until 1994 that an official edition appeared in the Czech Republic itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham Greene, a great admirer of Hostovsk\u00fd\u2019s work, remembers his encounter with him in connection with this novel Missing<\/em>: \u201cMy first meeting with Egon Hostovsk\u00fd had some of the flavour of his own works\u201d, Graham Greene wrote in 1958, \u201ca complex flavour of black humour, melodrama and despair. It was in Prague during the week of the Communist Revolution. Hostovsk\u00fd came into my hotel room straight from a last meeting at his Foreign Office with his beloved chief Masaryk \u2013 who was to suffer a defenestration a few days later. We sat on the bed finishing my bottle of Scotch whisky and the streets outside were noisy with processions of trade unionists, shouting away their freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn \u2018Missing\u2019 Hostovsk\u00fd has written a vivid impression of the tension, conspiracy, terror and resignation of Prague just before and after the 1948 coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 The New York Times<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMr. Hostovsk\u00fd has something to say, and he says it very well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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\u201cIt is a unique work in the Czech literary landscape because it focuses on the events of the communist coup in 1948 and features real political figures such as Jan Masaryk. As is customary with Hostovsk\u00fd, it is a very elaborate and gradual style of narration, where absurd moments give way to dramatic ones.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Respekt<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zaginiony<\/summary>\n

Ksia\u017ckowe Klimaty, Wroclaw, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Andrzej Jagodzi\u0144sk<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Nestao<\/summary>\n

Blum, Belgrade, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Uro\u0161 Nikoli\u0107<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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