Dystopia books set in Czech Republic (7)
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Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "Kafkaesque." Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment in a bureaucratic maze, based on an undisclosed charge.
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Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
În ziua arestării sale, K. deschide uşa camerei lui pentru a afla ce se întâmplă cu micul dejun şi declanşează astfel un val de întâmplări care se sprijină, de-a lungul întregului roman, pe metafora uşii. Acuzat de o greşeală pe care nu o cunoaşte, de nişte judecători cu care nu se întâlneşte niciodată, conform unor legi despre care nimeni nu ştie nimic, el va deschide nenumărate uşi în încercarea de a lămuri această situaţie. "Procesul", piesă de referinţă în opera acestui geniu al absurdului care a fost Kafka, renunţ... continue
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Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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Un día al despertarse Josef K. descubre dos hombres vestidos estrafalariamente, que vienen a arritarle, en nombre de un misterioso tribunal.....
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Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
A história de Josef K. atravessa os anos sem perder nada do seu vigor. Ao contrário, a banalização da violência irracional no século XX acrescentou a ela o fascínio dos romances realistas. Na sua luta para descobrir por que o acusam, por quem é acusado e que lei ampara a acusação, K. defronta permanentemente com a impossibilidade de escolher um caminho que lhe pareça sensato ou lógico, pois o processo de que é vítima segue leis próprias: as leis do arbítrio.
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A Brief History of Living Forever by Jaroslav Kalfar EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
An audacious novel set in a near-future America under the dual manipulations of technology and surveillance, A Brief History of Living Forever tells the epic, exhilarating story of a long-lost brother and sister on a mission to reclaim their mother from oblivion. When Adela discovers she has a terminal illness, her thoughts turn to Tereza, the American-raised daughter she gave up at birth. Leaving behind her moody, grown son, Roman, in their native Czech village, she flies to the United States to find the long-lost daughter who never knew her. Yet the country, in the year 2029, is steeped in s... continue
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RUR by Karel Čapek EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who wrote many plays and novels, many of them with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R.U.R. is perhaps the most well-known of these works in the English-speaking world because it brought the word “robot” into the language. “Robot” is derived from the Czech word meaning “worker.” The play is set in the island headquarters of th... continue