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Josef Škvorecký

Born

in Náchod, Czech Republic

September 24, 1924

Died

January 03, 2012

Genre

Fiction, Mystery

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Josef Škvorecký, CM was a Czech writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. By turns humorous, wise, eloquent and humanistic, Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz. ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 14,289 ratings · 1,115 reviews · 139 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cowards 3.93 avg rating — 1,468 ratings — published 1958 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký, Paul Wilson (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 1,064 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Swell Season: A Text on the Most Important Things in Life by Josef Škvorecký, Paul Wilson (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 942 ratings — published 1975 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tankový prapor by Josef Škvorecký, Jiří Voskovec (introduction), Jan Brychta (illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 1969 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bass Saxophone 3.82 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 1967 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Miracle Game 4.02 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 1972 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss Silver's Past by Josef Škvorecký, Peter Kussi (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 1969 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka: Detective Tales by Josef Škvorecký, Rosemary Kavan (Translator), Kaca Polackova-Henley (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1966 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legenda Emöke 3.59 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dvořák in Love by Josef Škvorecký, Paul Wilson (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1983 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Josef Škvorecký (?)

“We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.”
― Josef Škvorecký, Engineer of Human Souls

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“Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.”
― Josef Škvorecký

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“There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one’s dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one’s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.”
― Josef Škvorecký, Engineer of Human Souls

tags: beauty, fear, future, hope, life

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