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Title	:	The Engineer of Human Souls (Danny Smiřický)
Author	:	Josef Škvorecký
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 592 pages
Published	:	February 28th 2000 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Czech Literature

The Engineer of Human Souls (Danny Smiřický)

Josef Škvorecký

Paperback | Pages: 592 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 834 Users | 80 Reviews

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The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is let loose to roam between past and present, adopting whatever identity that he chooses or has been imposed upon him by History.

As adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, The Engineer of Human Souls is worthy of the subtitle Skvorecky gave it: "An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents,
Love and Death."

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Original Title:	Příběh inženýra lidských duší
ISBN:	1564781992 (ISBN13: 9781564781994)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Danny Smiřický
Characters:	Danny Smiricky
Literary Awards:	Angelus (2009)

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If Milan Kundera had gotten together with Orhan Pamuk to rewrite Snow with more of a postmodern flourish...Toss in 'the immigrant experience' and a dash of post-war paranoia, and we're getting close to this book. Absolutely loved the lit-classroom dialogues on literature and politics and the accompanying allusions and metaphors. I wasn't in love with his prose, however, as it was burdened from time to time (and time again) with cliche. Still a rich and resounding read.

I actually approached this book with trepidation. It is thick, with almost six hundred pages of the usual hardbound size book. The title is imposing, the author's name has the same foreboding sound as that of Kafka, the cover shows a typewriter with a sheet of paper flying upwards off it stair-like, with a blurb by Milan Kundera ("Magnificent! A magnum opus!") who is himself not easy to understand.It turned out to be a delightful read, Czechoslovakia's answer to Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in

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 ones dreams until some improbable future-a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear which has pervaded ones life suddenly vanishes because there is nothing to be afraid ofSo the main character of The Engineer of Human Souls observes from the relative safety of suburban Toronto, reflecting on his escape from a nation strangled by

Skvorecky, a Czech emigre who left his native land for Canada after the Soviet put down of the Prague Spring, and with Milan Kundera and Bohumil Hrabal is one of that nation's great writers has really written two books here. In the book's dual plots - Professor Danny Smiricky looks back at his young wartime adventures while negotiating tenure and academic politics at a Toronto university - he manages both to capture the transition from young adulthood to adulthood and adulthood into old age. If

Czech émigré Josopeh Skvorecky is one of my favorite writers. Skvorecky is a master at describing what communism is like without demonizing its opportunistic supporters in his home country.I can think of no one else who is better than Skvorecky at describing the environment in Toronto during the seventies and eighties. During this time one met central Europeans everywhere: at work, in my neighbourhood and at all levels of schooling. They all lived through the experiences described by Skvorecky

After reading The Miracle Game (more adventures of Danny Smiricky!) I was extremely happy to see that The Engineer of Human Souls is nearly 600 pages. Awesome, a good thing that won't end too soon. And this is really good, brilliant. Like an I.B. Singer novel on steroids. It's dark in the sense that anything that stems from life in the Eastern Block usually is, but the element of black humor/absurdity made this book difficult to put down. It's truly a literary treat.