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240 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099429586
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: Not specified
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The narrator has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress – an essay on Kafka – and exchanged his writer’s pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively,...
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240 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780099429586
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The narrator has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress – an essay on Kafka – and exchanged his writer’s pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively,...