B O D Y literature has the short story “Melancholy Leaves from Democracy’s Autumn Trees” by Jiří Hájíček, translated from the Czech by Gale A. Kirking. The story was originally in the collection The Wooden Knife and included in the English translation of Rustic Baroque. My post on this story and three others included with […]
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Rustic Baroque by Jiří Hájíček, translation from the Czech by Gale A. Kirking (Brno: Real World Press, 2012) As I mentioned in the post on Rustic Baroque there were also four stories from Hájíček’s collection The Wooden Knife included in the book. Memories of a Village Dance in 1986 The Wooden Knife Horses are Supposed […]
Rustic Baroque by Jiří Hájíček Translation from the Czech by Gale A. Kirking (Brno: Real World Press, 2012)Links: Opening the wounds of collectivization: Rustic Baroque in English Czech literature portal’s new book notice A pdf of the first few pages in the book (There are more links at Real World Press but not all the […]