The Last Bell by Johannes Urzidil
The first ever English collection of stories by Johannes Urzidil - a friend of Kafka and an unjustly overlooked writer.
The last great troubadour of a long-lost Prague Max Brod A neat volume of five unusual, arresting short stories, translated from German into English for the first time Country Life Full of unexpected twists that leave you guessing The Lady Bravo to Pushkin Press for rescuing yet another sparkling Central European writer from Anglophone obscurity, and for introducing us to his succinct, sensitive storiesI hope there'll be much more Urzidil to come The Idle Woman (blog) This miniature masterpiece and the other four stories come to us in one voice, that of an inexplicably overlooked Czech master who is only now finding an English-speaking audience. Credit is due to Pushkin Press for rediscovering Urzidil The National
Johannes Urzidil (1896-1970) was a German Bohemian writer, poet, historian and journalist. Born in Prague, he was a member of the Prague Circle and a friend of Franz Kafka's and Max Brod's. He fled to England after the German occupation in 1939, and eventually settled in the United States. Best known during his lifetime for the Prague Triptych collection of short stories and his literary history Goethe in Bohemia, he won several awards for his writing, and even had an asteroid named after him.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782272397 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782272399 |
| Title | The Last Bell |
| Author | Johannes Urzidil |
| Series | Pushkin Collection |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2017-03-02 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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