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Josef Skvorecky

THE BASS SAXOPHONE

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The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophonebrilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas.In Emoke, which is set in the shadow of the Communist regime, jazz becomes the means by which a jaded young man plots the seduction of a mysterious girl enmeshed in superstition and the occult. Spurned, but fascinated, he is drawn into her tortured existence until catapulted into the final bitter comedy.In The Bass Saxophone a young Czechoslovakian student living… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-307-83212-2
  • EAN: 9780307832122
  • Produktnummer: 15726702
  • Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'944 KB

Über den Autor


JOSEF SKVORECKY was the winner of numerous literary prizes including the Governor General's Award, the Order of Canada and the Order of the White Lion. He died in 2012.

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