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02891aam a2200421 i 4500 001 4A1EFEA64EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221018010048 008 211026t20212021xr a 000 f eng d 020 $a 8024648148 020 $a 9788024648149 035 $a (OCoLC)1295113426 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d NYP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d CBY $d CGU $d IaU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h cze 043 $a ee----- 050 4 $a PG5038.V35 $b P613 2021 082 04 $a 891.8635 $2 23 100 1 $a VancÌura, Vladislav, $d 1891-1942, $e author. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000081131926 240 10 $a Pole ornaÌ a vaÌlecÌnaÌ. $l English 245 10 $a Ploughshares into swords / $c Vladislav VancÌura ; translated from the Czech by David Short ; afterword by Rajendra A. Chitnis. 250 $a First English edition. 264 1 $a Prague : $b Karolinum Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 279 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 19 cm 490 1 $a Modern Czech classics 520 $a "The first English-language translation of a classic Czech antiwar novel written in the wake of WWI. Originally published in 1925, Ploughshares into Swords is an expressionist antiwar novel in which Vladislav VanÄura tells the story of the denizens of the Ouhrov estate in language as baroque as the manor that ties them all together. The fragmented narrative introduces the reader to such characters as Baron Danowitz, his sons, his French concubine, the farmhand FrantiÅ¡ek Hora, and the mentally disabled murderer Åeka in the autumn of 1913, before revealing their fates during World War I. Ranging from the peaceful farmlands of Bohemia to the battlefields of Galicia, taking in the pubs of Budapest and the hospitals of Krakow, the novel constitutes an unsentimental and naturalistic approach to the war that created Czechoslovakia. Ploughshares into Swords is a stunning novel by one of Czech literature's most important writers. This modernist masterpiece, reminiscent of the work of Isaac Babel and William Faulkner, is now available in English for the very first time."-- $c Provided by publisher 500 $a Translated from the Czech. 500 $a "Pole ornaÌ a vaÌlecÌnaÌ was originally published in 1925, here translated from the edition published by NasÌe vojsko, Prague 1966"--Title page verso 648 7 $a 1914-1918 $2 fast 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Europe, Eastern $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Eastern Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245079 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 700 1 $a Short, David, $d 1943- $e translator. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000109373557 700 1 $a Chitnis, Rajendra A., $d 1972- $e writer of afterword. 830 0 $a Modern Czech classics. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4A1EFEA64EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search