9780394505008 - the engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death de skvorecky, josef (14 resultados)
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Librería: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, Estados Unidos de AmericaBooksRun
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Hardcover. Condición: Fair. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.
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Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de AmericaThriftBooks-Atlanta
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Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Librería: Goodwill Books, Hillsboro, OR, Estados Unidos de AmericaGoodwill Books
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Condición: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.
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Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de AmericaThriftBooks-Dallas
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Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de AmericaThriftBooks-Dallas
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Librería: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, Estados Unidos de AmericaBetter World Books: West
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Condición: Very Good. First American Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Librería: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, Estados Unidos de AmericaMidtown Scholar Bookstore
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. first American edition with review slip and promotional material Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
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Librería: Thomas F. Pesce', Anaheim, CA, Estados Unidos de AmericaThomas F. Pesce'
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair to Good. First American Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984. Hardcover. Condition: good black boards, black cloth spine with silver lettering, some smidges & rub wear. . Dust Jacket Condition: Illustrated with old typewriter, some rub wear to edges & tiny tears, o…therwise intact, Pages clean, tightly bound, with rough cut on the fore edge pages. Tiny amount of prints, soiling, on edges of pages, small stain on top edge, otherwise pages clean & readable First Edition. Translated by Paul Wilson. , unclipped ($17.95), Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Hailed by fellow Czech author Milan Kundera as a magnum opus, the novel tells the story of novelist and professor Danny Smiricky as he flees Czechoslovakia for the freedom and security of Canada.
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Librería: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, Estados Unidos de AmericaChamblin Bookmine
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8vo Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. 2nd Printing. 571p. White pages are unmarked with deckle edges. Tightly bound with secure hinges. Black paper boards are pointed with silver lettering on spine. Jacket is unclipped, protected in mylar and shows minimal wear. Short inscription on ffep.
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Librería: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de AmericaGround Zero Books, Ltd.
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Condición: good, good. First American Edition. 571, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, some edge wear. Complete subtitle: An entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death. The expression "the engineer of human souls" is held, by many political indoctrinators, to be Stali…n's definition of a writer: as an engineer constructs a machine, so must a writer construct the mind of the New Man. "The Engineer of Human Souls" is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. Josef Shvorecky is unquestionably an important writer, blending a great humorous talent with a restless, sustained, probing moral inquisitiveness. The author was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
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Librería: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, Estados Unidos de AmericaRemarks Used Books
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Second Printing, August 1984. 571pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "It is magnificent! . . It marks an exceptional moment in history. . . It is a magnum opus."--Milan Kundera. "From the internationally acclaimed writer Josef Skvor…ecky: his most stunning and ambitious work. 'An entertainment,' he calls it, 'on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death.' It is a novel whose protagonist is a novelist, Danny Smiricky, a Czech, who, feeling himself to be 'too old to write for the desk drawer,' fled his country in 1968 to find asylum in Canada. When we meet him, he has been--for nearly a decade--professor of American literature (his great love) at Edenvale College in Toronto. He still sees his New World with Old World eyes, seduced by its freedom and sercurity, charmed by its earnest decadence, exasperated by its political innocence. . . Let loose in his surrealistic Eden, Danny finds much to divert him, much to satisfy 'a writer's unscrupulous hunger,' and has absolutely no nostalgia for Stalin's dictum that a writer should be an engineer of the soul of the New Socialist Man. [] The novel moves between the quirky calm of Danny's American present and the (unresolved) suspense of his past, that tragic, comic melodrama in which he stars as Youth; as feckless hero of the Resistance; as lover of Nadia the factory girl, his co-conspirator in sabotage; as hipster manque of a small Bohemian town under the pall of the Nazi occupation--with a cast of heroes, traitors, cowards, hotheads, and innocents. . . [] From this rich interaction of past and present emerges an extraordinary portrait of a writer in exile, moving toward a greatly longed-for identification--which will never be complete--with the country he now calls home. It is at once Danny's story and the whole sorrowful history of East and West since the war--a wise, witty, bawdy, tender novel of dazzling reach and sweep." [jacket copy] "As Cabrera Infante has lately done with Cubans, and Salman Rushdie with Pakistanis, so does Skvorecky with Czechs in this enormously disillusioned, constantly readable, and buoyantly happy/sad novel: a picture of temporary nationalism (embodied in this case by immigrants) that captures the particular genius of a people who've come through terrible history with the help of luminous personal gaiety. . . Few contemporary novels have mixed impurities of high and low content as smoothly and unselfconsciously as this one. . . this epic novel remains true to its blend of awful sadness and profound relief throughout: it's a generous, impulsive, poignant/funny masterpiece."--Kirkus Reviews. Massive & pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a Fine, intact jacket.
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Librería: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, Estados Unidos de AmericaRobinson Street Books, IOBA
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Condición: Usado - Bueno
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDsome creasing, clean very good copy.
Editorial: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984
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Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de AmericaBetween the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Near Fine. First American edition. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear and slight toning.
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Librería: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, Estados Unidos de AmericaBennettBooksLtd
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Condición: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2.35.
