Michael Henry Heim fue un prolífico traductor cuyo trabajo demostró una profunda comprensión de los matices dentro de las lenguas eslavas. Sus traducciones se caracterizaron por su precisión y un oído agudo para preservar la voz original del autor. Al navegar fluidamente por múltiples idiomas, enriqueció el panorama literario, haciendo accesibles diversas obras a un público más amplio. Su legado perdura en los puentes culturales que construyó a través de la literatura.
La broma es la novela de un amor, pero se trata también de la novela de una broma extraviada en un mundo que ha perdido el sentido del humor. Una chanza fútil y mal comprendida ha roto la vida de Ludvik, aterrado al advertir que su tragedia personal quedará para siempre adherida al ridículo de un chiste.
This parable of censorship and the modern state centers on Hanta, a trash collector whose habit of salvaging and reading discarded books has brought him both the richness of the classics and the ridicule of his boss
Extraordinaria historia de amor, de celos, de sexo, de traiciones, de muerte en la que semuestra las debilidades de lavida.
Developed by Professor Michael Heim (UCLA), the text contains grammar, extensive model sentences, and exercises (Part 1) and a series of review lessons (Part 2). Vocabulary and sentences are recorded along with a selection of exercises. Czech-English, English-Czech glossaries are provided. This intermediate course is particularly helpful for those who have a command of Russian. 3 audio CDs and a 271-p. text. Product no. AFCZ10D
The pieces collected in Lend Me Your Character—the novella "Steffie Cvek in the Jaws of Life" and a collection of short stories entitled Life Is a Fairy Tale— solidify Dubravka Ugresic's reputation as one of Eastern Europe's most playful and inventive writers. From the story of Steffie Cvek, a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by clichés as she searches relentlessly for an elusive romantic love in a narrative punctuated by threadbare advice from women's magazines and constructed like a sewing pattern, to "The Kharms Case," one of Ugresic's funniest stories ever about the strained relationship between a persistent translator and an unresponsive publisher, the pieces in this collection are always smart and endlessly entertaining.
This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an audience of young beauties.
This is a collection of Neruda's funny, wry, biter-sweet and illuminating stories about life for the inhabitants of the Old Quarter of 19th-century Prague.
