Author : Ludvík Vaculík
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810107267
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Guinea Pigs by : Ludvík Vaculík
Download or read book The Guinea Pigs written by Ludvík Vaculík and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guinea Pigs is a chilling fable about dehumanization and alienation representing Vaculik's vision of the menace of Soviet domination in the wake of the 1969 invasion. Written in 1970, it is a sweeping condemnation of totalitarianism, embedded in a rich, imaginative, highly experimental narrative. In the words of the New York Review of Books it is "one of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe."