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WHERE WAS THE ANGEL GOING? IBD

JAN BALABAN / CHARLES S KRASZEWSKI / CHARLE
GLAGOSLAV PUBLICATIONS B.V.
11 / 2020
9781912894277
Inglés

Sinopsis

âÇÖSomewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,âÇÖ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan BalabánâÇÖs noveláWhere was the Angel Going?.áâÇÖPeople are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. WeâÇÖve forgotten that weâÇÖve forgotten.âÇÖ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in MartinâÇÖs case, part of his âÇÖpunishmentâÇÖ is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community within a minority community (a Protestant in the overwhelmingly agnostic Czech Republic), Martin, like the survivor of a shipwreck, strives to shore up his vital resources amidst the billows of an inimical world, which constantly advance and threaten to wash away everything he holds dear. Where was the Angel Going?áis a novel made up of forty-six linked stories. As always, BalabánâÇÖs prose is so vivid that the reader can practically taste the âÇÖhoney and dust,âÇÖ which are the characteristic flavours of Ostrava. And yet, in its lyrical message of love and friendship as basic human needs no less critical than air and water,áWhere was the Angel Goingáis nonetheless an eminently universal novel. Everyone will find him or herself in these pages, as we are all of us descended from that first pair of exiles, Adam and Eve. Translation of this book was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Publishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor.