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001 9043298
003 BIBLIOS
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008 061213s2006 xr 000 1 eng d
020 $a8086264270 (pbk) :$c$14.50
020 $a9788086264271 (pbk)
020 $c$14.50
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm76965709
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041 1 $aeng$hcze
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050 14 $aPG3479.4.R9344$bJ8413 2006
082 04 $a891.8/635$222
100 1 $aBrycz, Pavel,$d1968-
240 10 $aJsem město.$lEnglish
245 10 $aI, city /$cPavel Brycz ; translated from the Czech by Joshua Cohen & Markéta Hofmeisterová.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aPrague, Czech Republic :$bTwisted Spoon,$c2006.
300 $a153 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $a"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
650 0 $aPollution$vFiction.
650 0 $aCities and towns$zCzech Republic$zBohemia$vFiction.
651 0 $aMost (Czech Republic)$vFiction.
651 0 $aBohemia (Czech Republic)$vFiction.
655 0 $aCzech fiction$y20th century$vTranslations into English.
998 $d9043298$b9788086264270$b9788086264271$b9788086264271$cIcity