The Miracle Game (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Josef Škvorecký
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: Ideology, Communism or communists, Crime or criminals, Literature, Education or educators, Politicians, Mysteries, Miracles, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
- Locales: United States, Czechoslovakia
Originally published in Czech in 1972 by the author’s own Canadian-based 68 Publishers (an important outlet for Czech writing prior to the bloodless overthrow of the Communist government in 1989), THE MIRACLE GAME is part detective story, part history lesson, and part satirical romp, a dissident as well as dissonant work which freely and cheerfully transgresses literary, temporal, and spatial borders. Covering twenty years and two continents, the novel centers on two times and places. There are the two years during which young Danny Smiricky, the hero of four other Skvorecky novels,...
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