My Crazy Century Paperback / softback
by Ivan Klima
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More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of KlÃma's generation.
KlÃma's story begins in the 1930s, in the Terezin concentration camp outside of Prague, where he was forced to spend almost four years of his childhood.
He reveals how the postwar atmosphere supported and encouraged the spread of Communist principles over the next few decades and how an informal movement to change the system developed inside the Party.
These political events form the backdrop to KlÃma's personal experiences, with the arrest and trial of his father; the early revolt of young writers against socialist realism; his first literary successes; and his travels to the free part of Europe, which strengthened his awareness of living as part of a colossal lie.
KlÃma also captures the brief period of liberation during 1968's Prague Spring, in which he played an active role; the Soviet invasion that crushed its political reforms; the rise of the dissident movement; and the collapse of the Communist regime in the middle of the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
Including insightful essays on topics related to social history, political thinking, love, and freedom, My Crazy Century provides a profoundly rich and moving personal history of national evolution.
Ivan KlÃma's first autobiography and perhaps his most significant work, it encapsulates a remarkable life largely lived under occupation.
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- Pages:544 pages, 8pp x b+w photos
- Publisher:Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Publication Date:03/04/2014
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- ISBN:9781611855708
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:544 pages, 8pp x b+w photos
- Publisher:Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Publication Date:03/04/2014
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- ISBN:9781611855708