ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1992.
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968. / Heda Margolius Kovaly


Njujork, Sjedinjene američke države 1992. Mek povez, engleski jezik, 192 strane.
Napomena: na dvadesetak strana tragovi gradite olovke (obeležen tekst); knjiga je veoma dobro očuvana.
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Heda Margolius Kovály (1919–2010) endured both the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz and the brutality of Czechoslovakia`s postwar Stalinist government. Her husband, after surviving Dachau and Auschwitz and becoming Czechoslovakia`s deputy minister of foreign trade, was convicted of conspiracy in the infamous 1952 Slansky trial and then executed. This clear-eyed memoir of her life during those horrific days is resonant with lyricism, managing somehow to be heartening even as it helps us to understand the political tragedies of the twentieth century.




`Once in a while we read a book that puts the urgencies of our time andourselves in perspective, making us confront the darker realities ofhuman nature.` Anthony Lewis, New York Times

`A story of human spirit at its most indomitable ... one of theoutstanding autobiographies of the century.` San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner

`An extraordinary memoir...written with so much quiet respect for theminutiae of justice and truth that one does not know where and how tospecify Heda Kovály`s splendidness as a human being ... It is impossible to read her book without the deepest admiration for her quiet, fiercedocumentation of the ordeal of the Czech people in our time.` Alfred Kazin

`Under A Cruel Star is the most remarkable book for a variety ofreasons: because Kovály has such a keen street sense for individualmotivations; because her writing is so precise and beautiful: and, mostof all, because she conveys such a ferocious and visceral sense that anindividual life is just as important - and just as powerful - asgovernments, militaries, and political might.` E. J. Graff, BrandeisWomen`s Studies Research Center, Columbia Journalism Review May / June 2005

`Given thirty seconds to recommend a single book that might start aserious young student on the hard road to understanding the politicaltragedies of the twentieth century, I would choose this one ... All thisis recounted in an exemplary amalgam of psychological penetration andterse style ... A Google search reveals that the book is on the course inseveral colleges, but it deserves to be more famous than that.` CliveJames, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts,W. W. Norton, New York 2007

`I used to teach it in what was for many years my favorite course, asurvey of essays and novels from Central and Eastern Europe thatincluded the writings of Milan Kundera, Václav Havel, Ivo Andric`, HedaKovály, Paul Goma, and others.` Tony Judt, `Captive Minds, Then and Now`, The New York Review of Books


A tragic story told with aplomb, humor and tenderness. -- Publishers Weekly

A story of the human spirit at its most indomitable ... one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century. -- San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner

Once in a rare while we read a book that puts the urgencies of our times and ourselves in perspective.... That has just happened to me. In telling her story―simply, without self-pity―[Mrs. Kovály] illuminates some general truths of human behavior. Anthony Lewis, New York Times -- Anthony Lewis, New York Times

Kovály`s attention to the world’s beauty, even while in hell, is so brazen as to take my breath away. [E.J. Graff, Columbia Journalism Review -- E.J. Graff, Columbia Journalism Review

This is a book that should never have had to be written; but since it had, we are lucky that it was done so well. -- Clive James, Cultural Amnesia


Heda Margolius Kovaly recently retired from the Harvard Law School Library and has returned to the Czech Republic.