City of Torment

By Daniela Hodrová

City of Torment is, on one level, a family and generational novel, conveyed through the complex voice of a first-person female narrator whose subjectivity becomes elaborately intertwined with the main protagonist, Eliska Ber?nkov? (Lamb). Eliska/Daniela is searching above all for her dead father, but also for her dead mother and ultimately for herself. At the same time, on a more abstract level, Hodrov? introduces a feminine structural dimension to a theme especially prevalent in 20th-century prose - the novel as a self-conscious genre, openly exploring the relationship of the author to her text. Hodrov?'s trilogy represents a distinct contemporary Czech voice in women's experimental writing, a genre first introduced to anglophone readers by Virginia Woolf.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914990013
• ISBN13: 9781914990014
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Jantar Publishing
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"