Ceska kniznice 132 : Zidovske varhany : Opozdene slasti  Czech Library 132: The Jewish Organ; Overdue Pleasures 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2676526B

  Author(s)

  Winder, Ludwig

  City

  Brno; Praha 

  Country

  Czech Republic 

  Language

  Czech 

  ISBN

  9788027522736 

  Date of Publication

  2025 

  Publisher

  Nadacni fond CESKA KNIZNICE Ustav pro ceskou literaturu AV CR, v. v. i. Host  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  337 

  Series

  Ceska kniznice 132

  Subject

  Jewish Studies

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Winder, Ludwig

  Publisher

  Nadační fond ČESKÁ KNIŽNICE Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i. Host  

• Description

  Czech Library 132: The Jewish Organ; Overdue Pleasures Two newly translated novels by Ludwig Winder, with the publication of which the Czech Library wants to highlight the work of important Czech authors writing in German, speak with the contemporary aesthetics of expressionist distress and new objectivity to urgent issues of the present day – loss of identity, a sense of alienation, mechanisms of power and manipulation. The developmental novel The Jewish Organ (Die jüdische Orgel, 1922, translation and commentary by Ingeborg Fialová-Fürstová) thematizes man's age-old efforts to defy authority. Albert Wolf refuses unconditional obedience to his father and the God of his ancestors. His attempts to break through suppressed desires, to get rid of doubts and self-torture alternate with the realization that his own exclusivity is both a curse and a choice. The political novel Overdue Pleasures (Die nachgeholten Freuden, 1927, translated and commented by Jan Budňák) reveals the power of money and the fragility of values ​​in the post-war period of economic crises and moral upheavals. Every attempt to catch up on lost life opportunities can then become a substitute for unfulfilled dreams and a callous calculation for controlling and blackmailing others. What to do when the supposed, material good in the hands of Adam Dupič becomes a tool for the work of evil?