Indecent Dreams

By Arnošt Lustig

Book Overview

In these three novellas, Arnost Lustig explores the existential interiors of those at the margin of disaster. A German prostitute assigned to Prague, a girl in a Nazi home for orphans, and a young woman working as a cashier in a movie theater lose themselves in a world of cruelty and collapsing social order--while their inner worlds teem with sexual fantasy, naive idealism, vengefulness, and visions of justice. Yet these so-called indecent dreams cannot compare with the obscenity of cruelty and domination legitimated by the Nazi imagination."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810107732
• ISBN13: 9780810107731
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"