Alongside Kundera's The Joke, The Axe was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslavakia during the cultural awakening of the 1960s.In late Sixties Czechoslovakia, communist ideology is failing. A disillusioned middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his youth. There he rediscovers the complex relationship with his dead father, a communist crusader. But when the journalist is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader--and that the stakes are now reversed.

The axe

Literature & Fiction

Ludvik Vaculik

Contemporary

Harper&Row

The Guinea Pigs is a chilling fable about dehumanization and alienation representing Vaculik's vision of the menace of Soviet domination in the wake of the 1969 invasion. Written in 1970, it is a sweeping condemnation of totalitarianism, embedded in a rich, imaginative, highly experimental narrative. In the words of the New York Review of Books it is "one of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe."

The Guinea Pigs

Penguin??Books

The Axe (European Classics)

Northwestern University Press

The first collection, in English OR Czech, of the clandestine writings of a central figure--a writer and publisher--of resistance writing after the Soviet crack down following the Prague Spring of 1968.

A Cup of Coffee With My Interrogator: The Prague Chronicles of Ludvik Vaculik

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

UNKNO

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Books by Ludvik Vaculik