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Engineer of Human Souls Book
Fiction/ The expression "the engineer of human souls" is held, by many political indoctrinators, to be Stalin's definition of a writer: as an engineer constructs a machine, so must a writer construct the mind of the New Man. 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 adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, THE ENGINEER is worthy of the subtitle Skvorecky gave it: "An entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love, and Death."Read More
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- 0671556827
- 9780671556822
- JOSEF SKVORECKY ; translated by PAUL WILSON
- 1 January 1985
- Chattto & Windus / The Hogarth Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 571
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