The Bass Saxophone: Two Novellas

by Josef Škvorecký

Book Overview

Translation of the author's Bassaxofon and Legenda Em?oke.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394502671
• ISBN13: 9780394502670
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very fine.

Skvorecky is always interesting, especially when he writes about the Czech experience. In this case, two stories, both on the edge of "magical realism" -- or the grotesque -- about life under totalitarianism, and about the yearning for human interaction characteristic of Czech writing.