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I could not believe I had not heard before from what was going on in this country before and in so recent times I loved the story on Bata, this should be studied in Business Schools worldwide.
Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia
Jan 20, Aathavan rated it liked it. I read only about a 5th of the book and found it interesting mostly for the light it shed on Chechoslovakia in the past.
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The narrative quality was poor. Somewhat tongue in cheek look at the Czech Republic.
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Covering paternalistic industrialists, entertainment icons, and some of the dark happenings of the Russian occupation. Good, but it's due back at the library and I'm not super compelled to finish it. Oct 26, Kobe Bryant rated it liked it. Why didnt he write about all the good things communism had done for the Czech Republic. Michal rated it liked it Jan 05, Tim rated it liked it Jun 14, Nefercheres rated it liked it Jul 09, Bob rated it liked it Dec 12, Tomasz Blaszak rated it liked it Jul 10, Meelis rated it liked it Sep 20, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
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No trivia or quizzes yet. For the people I have loved I have a different yardstick.
Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Death was no less free of regulation than life: The chapter begins novelistically: Suddenly burial had become unbelievably complicated.
Only one gravedigger is willing; the grateful Mrs. The right to speak is their undoing, unaccompanied as it is by the right to privacy. Perhaps they, too, have found a way to escape or disappear.
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One, at least, has nearly managed it: An extremely old woman who never answers her phone or her mail, Vera S. Hers is a very Kafkaesque strategy of escape; she simply vanishes, not-a-fake and not-yet-a-ghost. Gottland could have been called Kafkaland ; the country certainly seems to belong more to its most famous writer than to any deity. The role of mein Gott.
The role of my God —both a holy figure and a curse, an expression of disbelief. Gottland is a project of anti-silence, for we should not have spent so long learning to talk only to be left with no voice. Two marginal nations received their due, and since then Gottland has been translated into several languages.
We are very fortunate that English is finally among them. I mentioned before that it is difficult to remember that Gottland is not a work of fiction. If the book reads like a novel, perhaps that is because we believe that novels can convey better than non-fiction the texture of the past.