Rozner Jan
Rozner Jan - Seven Days To The Funeral - Paperback
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Description: A dissident's deeply personal and unflinching view of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1968 invasion. Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalized memoir of J n Rozner a leading Slovak journalist critic dramaturg and translator. Rozner and his wife Zora Jesensk were champions of the Prague Spring and were blacklisted after the Soviet - led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. When Jesensk died in 1972, her funeral became a political event and attendees faced recriminations. A painstaking account of the week after his wife's death Seven Days to the Funeral is a historical record of the devastating impact of the period after the invasion. Through ruthless portraits of key figures in Slovak culture the book provides a fascinating cultural history of Slovakia from 1945 to 1972. It is also a moving love story of an unlikely couple. Although Rozner began the book in 1976, it was left unfinished upon his death. The book was published posthumously in 2009 by his second wife Sl va Roznerov .
Title: Seven Days To The Funeral
Author(s): Rozner Jan
Publisher: Karolinum Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy Czech Republic
Barcode: 9788024656335
Pages: 375 Pages
Publication Date: 6/19/2024
Series: Modern Slovak Classics
Category: Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
Description: A dissident's deeply personal and unflinching view of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1968 invasion. Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalized memoir of J n Rozner a leading Slovak journalist critic dramaturg and translator. Rozner and his wife Zora Jesensk were champions of the Prague Spring and were blacklisted after the Soviet - led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. When Jesensk died in 1972, her funeral became a political event and attendees faced recriminations. A painstaking account of the week after his wife's death Seven Days to the Funeral is a historical record of the devastating impact of the period after the invasion. Through ruthless portraits of key figures in Slovak culture the book provides a fascinating cultural history of Slovakia from 1945 to 1972. It is also a moving love story of an unlikely couple. Although Rozner began the book in 1976, it was left unfinished upon his death. The book was published posthumously in 2009 by his second wife Sl va Roznerov .
Title: Seven Days To The Funeral
Author(s): Rozner Jan
Publisher: Karolinum Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy Czech Republic
Barcode: 9788024656335
Pages: 375 Pages
Publication Date: 6/19/2024
Series: Modern Slovak Classics
Category: Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
