Ludvik Vaculik

'A Cup of Coffee with My Interrogator'

Bog | Engelsk

These witty and ironical short essays in the classic Czech genre known as feuilletons, or chronicles, show Ludvik Vaculik's philosophy, honesty and humor. His work, in George Theiner's stylishtranslation, will evoke a powerful response todayfromEn

'Czech Dreambook'

Bog | Engelsk

Its 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvík Vaculík has writers block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powerful novel, The Guinea Pigs, and it was in 1968 that he wrote his ant