The engineer of human souls / Josef Skvorecky ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson.

"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 b...

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Main Author: Škvorecký, Josef, 1924-2012
Other Authors: Wilson, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Czech
Published: Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1999.
Edition:1st Dalkey Archive ed.
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Uniform Title:Příběh inženýra lidských duší.

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