Ourednik Patrik - Europeana - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Tracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug 1999 through 1900, Dadaism through Scientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back award - winning Czech author Patrik Ourednik explores the horror and absurdity of the twentieth century in an explosive deconstruction of historical memory. Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century opens on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, comparing the heights of different forces soldiers and considering how tall long or good at fertilizing fields the men's bodies will be. Probing the depths of humanity and inhumanity this is an account of history as it has never been told: engaging even frightening. At once recreating and uncreating the twentieth century Ourednik explores the connections across the decades between the disparate figures events and politics we thought we knew. Patrik Ourednik's Europeana merits the author's reputation as a giant of post - 1989 Czech literature. Now translated into 33 languages the book is a masterwork of cubism a polymorphic monologue of statistics and movements and fine print and discoveries that evokes the deadpan absurdity of Kafka and the gallows humor of Ha ek. Ourednik has created a mesmerizing maddening account of the past and his interrogation of truth and objectivity resonates now more than ever.
Title: Europeana
Author(s): Ourednik Patrik
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Barcode: 9781628975017
Pages: 122 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 5/28/2024
Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
Category: Fiction In Translation