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9780312421731

When Eve Was Naked Stories of a Life's Journey

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312421731

  • ISBN10:

    0312421737

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-07-01
  • Publisher: Picador

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Summary

This autobiography in stories takes us through a most remarkable life, from the innocence of prewar Prague through the horrors of the Nazi occupation and World War II. In the title story, narrated by Skvorecky's alter-ego Danny Smiricky, seven-year-old Danny falls in love for the first time; at sixteen he hides in a railway station and watches as his Jewish teacher is herded onto a train and taken away; and in 1968, as Russian tanks rolled into Prague, vSkvorecky flees Czechoslovakia, taking Danny with him. In the collection's final stories, Danny begins his tenure as Professor Smiricky at a Canadian university and attempts to come to terms with the politically innocent and self-centered youth that flock to his courses.

Author Biography

Josef Skvorecky is the author of The Bass Saxophone and The Engineer of Human Souls, among other works. He is the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, and Venice, Florida.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Introduction to Life
Why I Lernt How to Reed (1998)p. 3
Eve Was Naked (1961)p. 7
Why Do People Have Soft Noses? (1965)p. 14
A Remarkable Chemical Phenomenon (1965)p. 18
How My Literary Career Began (1960)p. 21
The Thousand-Year Empire
My Uncle Kohn (1957)p. 30
My Teacher, Mr. Katz (1957)p. 37
Dr. Strass (1964)p. 47
The Cuckoo (1964)p. 55
Fragments about Rebecca (1964)p. 70
Feminine Mystique (1989)p. 76
An Interlude
An Insoluble Problem of Genetics (1985)p. 94
The Evil Empire
Three Bachelors in a Fiery Furnace (1963)p. 100
The End of Bull Macha (1953)p. 103
Spectator on a February Night (1948)p. 123
Laws of the Jungle (1949)p. 165
Filthy Cruel World (1955)p. 219
Song of Forgotten Years (1963)p. 250
Pink Champagne (1967)p. 262
Another Interlude
The Mysterious Events at Night (1985)p. 282
All's Well That Ends Well
Wayne's Hero (1996)p. 302
According to Poe (1996)p. 308
Jezebel from Forest Hill (1996)p. 317
A Magic Mountain and a Willowy Wench (1996)p. 340
Acknowledgmentsp. 349
Creditsp. 351
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