The Other City

Author:   Michal Ajvaz ,  Gerald Turner
Publisher:   Dalkey Archive Press
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9781564784919


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   23 July 2009
Format:   Paperback
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The Other City


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"In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, eccentrics, talking animals, and impossible statues, all lurking on the peripheries of a town so familiar to tourists. The Other City is a guidebook to this invisible, ""other Prague,"" overlapping the workaday world: a place where libraries can turn into jungles, secret passages yawn beneath our feet, and waves lap at our bedspreads. Heir to the tradition and obsessions of Jorge Luis Borges, as well as the long and distinguished line of Czech fantasists, Ajvaz's Other City—his first novel to be translated into English—is the emblem of all the worlds we are blind to, being caught in our own ways of seeing."

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Author:   Michal Ajvaz ,  Gerald Turner
Publisher:   Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint:   Dalkey Archive Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.226kg
ISBN:  

9781564784919


ISBN 10:   1564784916
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   23 July 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Reading such a world means stepping inside it, letting it infect you, bruise, scrape, poison and obsess you. --Jonathan Bolton, CONTEXT


Reading such a world means stepping inside it, letting it infect you, bruise, scrape, poison and obsess you. -- Jonathan Bolton, CONTEXT


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Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. In 2005, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for his novel Pra?zdne? ulice (Empty Streets). He is a researcher at Prague's Center for Theoretical Studies. In addition to fiction, he has published an essay on Derrida, a book-length meditation on Borges, and a philosophical study on the act of seeing.

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