My Merry Mornings
by Ivan Klima
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Funny, shocking and absurd, tales of a dissident's life in Prague before the fall of communism, by one of the greatest Czech writers. Engagingly down-to-earth stories still relevant today.Tags
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Author and playwright Ivan Klima was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1931. In 1968, he acted as an editor for the journal of the Czech Writer's Union. Following that, he was briefly a professor at the University of Michigan before returning to his homeland in 1970. His works, which include The Spirit of Prague, a collection of essays, were show more banned in Czechoslovakia until 1989. They address issues such as totalitarianism and intellectual freedom, which Klima also lectures on. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Wereldbibliotheek (1990)
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- Canonical title
- My Merry Mornings
- Original title
- Má veselá jitra
- Original publication date
- 1979 (Czech ed.) (Czech ed.)
- Original language*
- Tsjechisch
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.8 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian)
- LCC
- PG5039.21 .L5 .M313 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Slavic Czech
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