Historical novels - Prague and Danube River area
Dec 27th, 2004, 12:28 PM
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Historical novels - Prague and Danube River area
Can anyone suggest a good historical novel about any or all of these localities? We'll be in Prague, then driving to Nurnberg and cruising down the Main-Danube Canal to the Danube River, ending in Budapest.
Jan 12th, 2005, 12:59 PM
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Thank you - I will look for Furst first and then tackle Kafka when I'm a little more ambitious. Haven't read him since college. My husband searched the internet and could not come up with anything halfway decent.
Jan 12th, 2005, 06:24 PM
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I read a very good book title "A View From Stalin's Head" when I went to Prague. It is a book of short stories mostly all set in Prague. It does have some gay content so I only recommend it for the open-minded- however,it was a great vacation book.
Jan 12th, 2005, 07:58 PM
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The Good Soldier Svejk, by Jaroslav Hasek (depending on which translation you find, the title may be given as The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War, or some variation on those words) - classic satire about a Czech soldier in the First World War
The Radetzky March, by Joseph Roth - the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as told through the lives of three generations of a family
The Radetzky March, by Joseph Roth - the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as told through the lives of three generations of a family
Jan 12th, 2005, 08:51 PM
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Jiri Weil's "Mendelsohn Is On The Roof" is a novel about the Nazi Occupation of Prague. The title comes from the famous incident where Nazi officials tried to pull down the statue of Jewish composer Felix Mendelsohn from the roof of the Prague State Opera.
Jiri Weil's "My Life With A Star" also takes place in Prague, and deals with a Jewish man's struggle to stay alive under the Nazi Occupation.
Jiri Weil's "My Life With A Star" also takes place in Prague, and deals with a Jewish man's struggle to stay alive under the Nazi Occupation.
Jan 13th, 2005, 07:13 AM
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"Embers" by Sandor Marai. Written in the 1940s in Hungarian, it came out in English translation a year or two ago. The end of the Austro-Hungarian empire from the perspective of two friends in love with the same woman. Exquisitely written.
