The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký

The Engineer of Human Souls

Danny Smiřický

Josef Škvorecký with Paul Wilson (Translator)

592 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
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The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out ...

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