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House of the Nine Devils

Johannes Urzidil
4.29/5 (24 ratings)
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The most erudite of all Prague German writers, his mastery consists not least of all in his ability to tell a story while politely concealing its erudition.
– Peter Demetz

Collected here and translated into English for the first time are some of the most renowned Bohemian stories from Prague native Johannes Urzidil, a long-neglected writer whose short fiction herein spans centuries, from the bygone mythical Prague of alchemists to the late Habsburg metropolis where ethnic tensions seethed under a genteel veneer to the terror-filled days of Nazi occupation and a desperate flight to safety. Bearing his trademark wisdom, empathy, and wit, the writing often blurs the border between reportage, memoir, and fiction, such as an encounter with Gavrilo Princip, wasting away in the Terezín prison after his assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, or a WWI soldier trying to evade military police and disrupting a night at Café Arco, a favorite haunt of the Prague Circle that included Brod, Kafka, and Werfel, as well as Urzidil, the group’s youngest member and one of the last links to that symbiotic milieu of Prague German-Jewish artists.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
198 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Twisted Spoon Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
8086264602
ISBN13:
9788086264608
kindle Asin:
B0B4KV69SX

House of the Nine Devils

Johannes Urzidil
4.29/5 (24 ratings)
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The most erudite of all Prague German writers, his mastery consists not least of all in his ability to tell a story while politely concealing its erudition.
– Peter Demetz

Collected here and translated into English for the first time are some of the most renowned Bohemian stories from Prague native Johannes Urzidil, a long-neglected writer whose short fiction herein spans centuries, from the bygone mythical Prague of alchemists to the late Habsburg metropolis where ethnic tensions seethed under a genteel veneer to the terror-filled days of Nazi occupation and a desperate flight to safety. Bearing his trademark wisdom, empathy, and wit, the writing often blurs the border between reportage, memoir, and fiction, such as an encounter with Gavrilo Princip, wasting away in the Terezín prison after his assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, or a WWI soldier trying to evade military police and disrupting a night at Café Arco, a favorite haunt of the Prague Circle that included Brod, Kafka, and Werfel, as well as Urzidil, the group’s youngest member and one of the last links to that symbiotic milieu of Prague German-Jewish artists.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
198 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Twisted Spoon Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
8086264602
ISBN13:
9788086264608
kindle Asin:
B0B4KV69SX

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