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Evropa je jako židle Thonet, Amerika je pravý úhel
“Europe Is Like a Thonet Chair, America Is a Right Angle” (title translated by AI)
Sylva Fischerová (born 1963)
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A poetry reading tour through the eastern and central United States in 2010 sets off this short book, which moves between prose and verse and between Czech and English. Imagined or recorded conversations, passages from the chronicles of early settlers, a visit to the Czech Village in Cedar Rapids and to MoMA in New York all find a place in it. Rather than a travel diary it is a comparison of two continents and their cultures, a meditation on what a writer does and whether one has the right to call oneself a poet, and a story into which the death of a close friend suddenly intrudes, as a love affair comes to an end.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 78 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, 2010
- First published
- 2012 by Druhé město
- Author's age
- 49 when first published
- ISBN
9788072273195 (original)