At its heart, "Miss Silver's Past" is much more than a mystery novel, for it rests on the not-too-distant Czech past of Nazi occupation and Communist repression, and the tragedy of the 20th century's conflagration leaves Skvorecky's characters deeply scarred, none more so than Miss Silver herself/5(4). Josef Škvorecký: Lvíce (Miss Silver’s Past) Originally called Miss Silverstein’s Past in translation and The Lion Cub in the original Czech, the novel was originally banned and then, in at the end of the Dubček period, it was published but banned again. Miss Silver is Lenka Silver. Josef Škvorecký was born in in Náchod, Czechoslovakia. He studied English and philosophy and became a teacher. Zbabelci (The Cowards), his first novel, was banned on publication. In , after the Soviet invasion, he and his wife left Czechoslovakia and eventually settled in Toronto. They founded Sixty-Eight Publishers which, till
Karel Leden works in the State publishing house in Prague, where you publish what the Party likes, or risk life and liberty. Then the beautiful, mysterious Lenka Silver arrives. Passions rise--and suddenly there is a murder. There are plenty of suspects, but all that is certain is that the affair is in some way connected to Miss Silver's past. Skvorecky, Josef, Czech Josef Václav Škvorecký (yō`zĕf väts`läv shkvôr`ĕtskē), , Czech-born novelist, www.doorway.rus Univ., Prague (). Written in , Skvorecky's first novel, The Cowards (; tr. ), was banned after its publication because of its ironic portrait of everyday life under Communist rule. In , after the defeat of the Czech reform movement. Josef Škvorecký, CM (pronunțare în cehă: [ˈjozɛf ˈʃkvorɛtskiː] (); n. 27 septembrie , Náchod, Východočeský kraj (d), Cehia - d. 3 ianuarie , Toronto, Ontario, Canada) a fost un scriitor și editor www.doorway.ru și-a petrecut jumătate din viață în Canada, publicând și sprijinind literatura cehă interzisă în timpul erei comuniste.
Most of Škvorecký's novels are available in English: the novels The Cowards, Miss Silver's Past, The Republic of Whores, The Miracle Game, The Swell Season, The Engineer of Human Souls which won a Canadian Governor General's Award, The Bride of Texas, Dvořák in Love, The Tenor Saxophonist's Story, Two Murders in My Double Life, An Inexplicable Story or The Narrative of Questus Firmus Siculus, his selected short stories When Eve Was Naked and the two short novels The Bass Saxophone and. Miss Silver's Past is the book where Skvorecky (or possibly his translator) most successfully manages to make Skvorecky's tone ressemble that of Evelyn Waugh whom Skvorecky greatly admired. As in a good Waugh novel, the book is filled with witty dialogues involving alluring women and the men who are hot in their pursuit. Josef Škvorecký was born in in Náchod, Czechoslovakia. He studied English and philosophy and became a teacher. Zbabelci (The Cowards), his first novel, was banned on publication. In , after the Soviet invasion, he and his wife left Czechoslovakia and eventually settled in Toronto. They founded Sixty-Eight Publishers which, till
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