"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Or the story of the singer Karel Gott, winner of the country’s Best Male Vocalist Award thirty-six years in a row, whose summer home, Gottland, is the Czech Dollywood.īased on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews with everyone from filmmakers to writers to pop stars to ordinary citizens, Gottland is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a resilient people living through difficult and often bizarre times-equally funny, disturbing, stirring and absurd . Or the story of Kafka’s niece, who loaned her name to writers blacklisted under the Communist regime so they could keep publishing.
Por eso ha escrito un libro a la vez erudito y. One of Europe’s most preeminent investigative journalists travels to the Czech Republic-the Czech half of the former Czechoslovakia, the land that brought us Kafka-to explore the surreal fictions and the extraordinary reality of its twentieth century.įor example, there’s the story of the small businessman who adopted Henry Ford’s ideas on productivity to create the world’s largest shoe company-and hired modernist giants such as Le Corbusier to design his company towns (which were also the birthplaces of Ivana Trump and Tom Stoppard). Comanda Gottland de Mariusz Szczygie - paperback la preturi foarte bune. Ganador del Premio del Libro Europeo el ao 2009, Gottland es para Mariusz Szczygiel la Repblica Checa. Mariusz Szczygies follow-up to Gottland takes the colourful exploration of Czech culture and people deeper, examining the civilisation of the present day and their approach to circumstance - both the good and the bad.
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