Where Was the Angel Going?
Author
Original Work
Translator
Editor
Charles S. Kraszewski
Language
Year
2020
Publisher
Country
United Kingdom
Pages
202
ISBN
9781912894284
"Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places," muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. "People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten." Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his "punishment" is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community…— Google Books
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