Adult books from Czech Republic
Recommended adult books (3)
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If you are into adult here are some adult books from Czech Republic for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Lettres à un jeune poète et autres lettres by Rainer Maria Rilke FR
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
En 1903, Rainer Maria Rilke entame une correspondance avec un jeune homme de vingt ans, Franz Kappus, un élève du prytanée militaire, qui lui a envoyé ses premiers essais poétiques. Plusieurs lettres suivront, sue Kappus publiera en 1929, trois ans après la mort de Rilke. Ces textes sont devenus immédiatement célèbres et comptent parmi les plus beaux de Rilke ; au fil du temps et des réponses, ils composent une superbe méditation sur la solitude, la création, l'amour, m'accomplissement de l'être. Au-delà de ce recueil, d'autres lettres ont été ajoutées, adressées à Lou Andréas-Salomé, Friedric... continue
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Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
SS Officer Juliyus Schlesinger is ordered to remove the statue of the Jewish composer Mendelssohn from the roof of the Prague Academy of Music before an official concert. Unsure which of the statues is Mendelssohn, he tells his men to remove the one with the biggest nose. Unfortunately, this is the statue of Wagner.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting : A Novel by Milan Kundera EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.