Overview

Alongside Kundera's The Joke, The Axe was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslovakia during the cultural awakening of the 1960s.



In late Sixties Czechoslovakia, communist ideology is failing. A disillusioned middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his youth. There he rediscovers the complex relationship with his dead father, a communist crusader. But when the journalist is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader--and that the stakes are now reversed.

ISBN-13

9780810110182

ISBN-10

0810110180

Weight

0.60 Pounds

Dimensions

5.13 x 0.70 x 7.75 In

List Price

$18.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

223 pages

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Published On

1994-12-21



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