![]() ![]() Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. ![]() No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. Copyright of Slavic & East European Journal is the property of American Association of Teachers of Slavic & East European Languages and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. Heir to the philosophical-fantastical tradition of Borges, Calvino, and Perec, The Golden Age is Michal Ajvaz’s greatest and most ambitious work.In 2005, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for his novel Prázdné ulice (Empty Streets). Also included are the reasons as to why this explanation can only be of limited nature. Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. Plotinus, Hölderlin, Kitaro, Husserl, de Mandiargues, Ladislav Klíma), as well as his personal correspondence with Michal Ajvaz from 2017–18, the author attempts to explain why the Yggur language was invented and what it is doing in the novel. Using some of the rich and varied literary and philosophical allusions in Lucemburská zahrada (e.g. Abstract: This is a companion piece to Laura Janda’s article in the same volume. ![]()
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The friendship between a fragile girl and a tormented boy changes dramatically when they are children, and evolves further when they are teenagers and the long-lost boy returns unexpectedly. Sara Zarr's sophomore novel gently captures both the innocence of youth and the point at which it is shattered. I cherish the book Sweethearts, I really do. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it's Haley's (It's a Baby's World) free-wheeling watercolor-and-ink cartooning and frisky handwritten typography that add jolts of humor and energy. A spread or two of mildly playful rhymed musings follow ("Worms are soft,/ beetles are hard./ Can you find some/ in your yard?"). ![]() "Your nose, skin, ears, eyes and tongue are working all of the time," notes Ziefert in this whimsical, if somewhat uneven, primer, "even when you are not paying attention to them." 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