A Czech Dreambook

by Ludvík Vaculík

It's 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludv k Vacul k has writer's block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powerful novel, The Guinea Pigs, and it was in 1968 that he wrote his anti-regime manifesto, Two Thousand Words , which the Soviet Union used as a pretext for invading Czechoslovakia. On the advice of his friend, the poet and surrealist painter Jir Kol r , Vacul k begins...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8024638525
• ISBN13: 9788024638522
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 3.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 8.2"