Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
The Bass Saxophone
Two Novellas
- Publisher
- Key Porter Books
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2002
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780886194123
- Publish Date
- Apr 2002
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
First published in 1980, The Bass Saxophone was chosen as Book of the Year by The Guardian. This internationally acclaimed classic of jazz literature is now available in a handsome new edition with a new contribution by the author. As an introduction to these two novellas, Skvorecky writes a remarkable personal memoir of his jazz-obsessed youth under two dictatorships. (2001)
About the author
Josef Skvorecký was born in 1924 in Nachod, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. He received his PhD in philosophy from Charles University in Prague in 1951. His earliest works, including The Cowards (1958), were banned by communist censors. He published novels, short stories and film scripts between 1963 and 1968, during a shift to more liberal political climate. After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Skvorecký and his wife, Zdena Salivarová emigrated to Canada in 1969. Together with his wife, he ran 68 Publishers, which published, in both Czech and English translations, books that we banned in Communist Czechoslovakia. By the fall of the Soviet Union, 68 published had published over 220 works. Skvorecky published many books, including novels, poetry, non-fiction, as well as for film and television, among them The Engineer of Human Souls (1984), which received the Governor General's Award for fiction. Skvorecký was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, and was awarded the Order of the White Lion in the Czech Republic in 1990. Josef Skvorecký died in 2012.
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