City of Torment
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781914990014
- ISBN-10: 1914990013
- Publisher: Jantar Publishing
- Publish Date: September 2022
- Dimensions: 8.19 x 5.43 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.65 pounds
- Page Count: 616
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