Beschreibung:
Ivan Klima, geb. 1931 in Prag, verbrachte einen Teil seiner Kindheit im KZ, studierte Bohemistik und Literaturwissenschaft und war Redakteur und Lektor. 1969/70 hielt er Vorlesungen in tschechischer Sprache an der Michigan University in Ann Arbor, USA, und lebt seit 1970 wieder in Prag, wo er bis zur Wende 1989 Publikationsverbot hatte. Klima wurde zuerst mit seinen Theaterstücken bekannt, die nahezu in ganz Europa, den USA und Kanada zu sehen waren. Seine Romane und Erzählungen wurden in viele Weltsprachen übersetzt und mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet.
The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively, on his passionate and adulterous love affair with the sculptress Daria. Gradually he admits the impossibility of being at once an honest writer and an honest lover, and with that agonising discovery comes a moment of choice.
The narrator of Love and Garbage has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively, on his passionate and adulterous love affair with the sculptress Daria. Gradually he admits the impossibility of being at once an honest writer and an honest lover, and with that agonising discovery comes a moment of choice.