{"product_id":"midway-upon-the-journey-of-josef-jedlicka-9788024631271","title":"Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life","description":"Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, \u003ci\u003eMidway Upon the Journey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eof Our Life\u003c\/i\u003e flew in the face of the reigning aesthetic of socialist realism, an anti-heroic novel informed by the literary theory of Viktor Shklovsky and constructed from episodes and lyrical sketches of the author and his neighbors' everyday life in industrial north Bohemia, set against a backdrop of historical and cultural upheaval. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeditative and speculative reflections here alternate and overlap with fragmentary accounts of Jedlicka's own biography and slices of the lives of people around him, typically rendered as overheard conversations. The narrative passages range in chronology from May 1945 to the early 1950s, with sporadic leaps through time as the characters go about the business of \"building a new society\" and the mythology that goes with it. Due to its critical view of socialist society, \u003ci\u003eMidway\u003c\/i\u003e remained unpublished until 1966, amid the easing of cultural control, but a complete version of this darkly comic novel did not appear in Czech until 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josef Jedlicka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 802463127X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788024631271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Karolinum Press, Charles University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Josef Jedlicka","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48519838728447,"sku":"9788024631271","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2f46663-75bc-4c93-8a60-ed82663f458c.jpg?v=1778739137","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/midway-upon-the-journey-of-josef-jedlicka-9788024631271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}