I, city
1st ed.
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Word Count
38,250 words, Guess
Page Count
153 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24966938M
- ISBN-139788086264271
- ISBN-108086264270
- OCLC Control Number76965709
- OCLC Control Numbericitybruc00bryc
Classifications
- DDC891.8/635
- LCCPG3479.4.R9344 J8413 2006
Description
"I, City is a novel about the north Bohemian city of Most, an ancient city founded on a primeval wetland literally relocated because it stood on a coal field. The city is the narrator of this unusual story telling its own story through its inhabitants, who make their appearances in fleeting, ghost-like vignettes, and Joycean epiphanies. The "I" is a whole consciousness enough removed from the town that it sees and knows everything, past and present. As Most's people emerge from the pollution and swamp of the town's founding, their historical that mistrust history, with typical Czech irony. Here, in the city, fictional people say factual things and factual people (Kafka, the Pope, the last president of Communist Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak) say fictional things ..."--Book description from www.amazon.com
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