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      The axe

      by Ludvik Vaculik
      Published
      Jan 1973
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      223
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      Alongside Kundera's The Joke, The Axe was one of the most influential novels to appear in Czechoslavakia during the cultural awakening of the 1960s.



      In late Sixties Czechoslovakia, communist ideology is failing. A disillusioned middle-aged journalist retreats from the politics of Prague to the Moravian countryside of his youth. There he rediscovers the complex relationship with his dead father, a communist crusader. But when the journalist is accused of disgracing his father and his proletariat background, he realizes that he, too, is a leader--and that the stakes are now reversed.

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      First Edition Jan 1973 Harper & Row ISBN13 9780060144869 ISBN10 0060144866
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      Jan 1995 Northwestern University Press ISBN13 9780810110182 ISBN10 0810110180
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