Jirí Weil (1900-1959) belongs among those Czech authors whose work has been available to the American reader in English translation only since the early 1990's. His major novels, Life with the Star and Mendelssohn is on the Roof, have been widely acclaimed as masterful and highly personal accounts of the fate of the Czech Jews during World War II. The present edition is a translation of a little-known collection of short pieces originally published in 1946. Weil is preoccupied not only with the fate of Jews, but with the entire spectrum of wartime society. His unusual language combines archaic, even Biblical elements with a stream-of-consciousness modernism. An expert translation by Rachel Harrell renders Weil's voice masterfully.
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Language Notes:
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech
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- PublisherMichigan Slavic Publications
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0930042875
- ISBN 13 9780930042875
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages90