Frank Kruk: or, the Undertaker Pranas Krukelis (1) (Volume) - Hardcover

Cvirka, Petras

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0996630406 ISBN 13: 9780996630405

Verlag: Pica Pica Press, 2016

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Páginas: 232 Géneros: 12:FA:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Sinopsis: In this imaginary biography, Petras Cvirka follows every detail of Pranas Krukelis ,s transformation from a barefoot Lithuanian village boy with a dead-ringer imitation of a squealing pig to the American businessman Frank Kruk, proprietor of a Brooklyn funeral parlor. On the way, Cvirka slings satire and slapstick in all directions, at just about every aspect of Lithuanian life and the immigrant experience in America. Think of something like a cross between Sinclair Lewis and Stella Gibbons. A classic of Lithuanian literature first published in 1934, the book has previously been translated into Russian, Czech, Latvian, and Estonian. This is its first English translation._,

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Críticas:

"Many undertakers completely misunderstand my good intentions. It seems I composed a kind of advertisement for them, the best I could. I praised the coffins, their business abilities, and described them as patriots, too. After all, you couldn't ask for more."-Petras Cvirka, Literatūros naujienos, 1934, No. 12 "In the novel Frank Kruk, the talented writer-patriot Petras Cvirka reflects an entire historical epoch in the life of the Lithuanian working people. At the same time, the novel extends beyond the borders of Lithuania-it unmasks the mercenary structure of life in capitalist America, based on plunder, deceit and violence... A horrible picture of oppression, lack of human rights and merciless exploitation of the working people unfolds before the reader."-G. Zimanas, Pravda, May 30, 1953

Reseña del editor:

In this imaginary biography, Petras Cvirka follows every detail of Pranas Krukelis’s transformation from a barefoot Lithuanian village boy with a dead-ringer imitation of a squealing pig to the American businessman Frank Kruk, proprietor of a Brooklyn funeral parlor. On the way, Cvirka slings satire and slapstick in all directions, at just about every aspect of Lithuanian life and the immigrant experience in America. Think of something like a cross between Sinclair Lewis and Stella Gibbons. A classic of Lithuanian literature first published in 1934, the book has previously been translated into Russian, Czech, Latvian, and Estonian. This is its first English translation.

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• Verlag: Pica Pica Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0996630406
• ISBN 13: 9780996630405
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232