"The Guinea Pigs "is a chilling fable about dehumanization and alienation representing Vaculik's vision of the menace of Soviet domination in the wake of the 1969 invasion. Written in 1970, it is a sweeping condemnation of totalitarianism, embedded in a rich, imaginative, highly experimental narrative. In the words of the "New York Review of Books" it is "one of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe."
"The Guinea Pigs "is a chilling fable about dehumanization and alienation representing Vaculik's vision of the menace of Soviet domination in the wake...
Alongside Kundera's "The Joke, The Axe" was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslavakia during the cultural awakening of the 1960s. In late Sixties Czechoslovakia, communist ideology is failing. A disillusioned middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his youth. There he rediscovers the complex relationship with his dead father, a communist crusader. But when the journalist is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader--and that the stakes are now reversed.
Alongside Kundera's "The Joke, The Axe" was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslavakia during the cultural awakening of the 1960s....
"One of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe. this brilliant book must be read."--New York Review of Books
A clerk at the State Bank begins to notice that something strange is going on-- bank employees are stuffing their pockets with money every day, only to have it taken every evening by the security guards who search the employees and confiscate the cash. But, there's a discrepancy between what is being confiscated and what is being returned to the bank, and our hero is beginning to fear that a secret circulation is developing, one that could undermine...
"One of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe. this brilliant book must be read."--New York Review of Books
