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Original Title:	Příběh inženýra lidských duší
ISBN:	1564781992 (ISBN13: 9781564781994)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Danny Smiřický
Characters:	Danny Smiricky
Literary Awards:	Angelus (2009)

The Engineer of Human Souls (Danny Smiřický)

Josef Škvorecký

Paperback | Pages: 592 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 834 Users | 80 Reviews

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Title	:	The Engineer of Human Souls (Danny Smiřický)
Author	:	Josef Škvorecký
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 592 pages
Published	:	February 28th 2000 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Czech Literature

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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 by the Czech secret police, Danny is let loose to roam between past and present, adopting whatever identity that he chooses or has been imposed upon him by History.

As adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, The Engineer of Human Souls is worthy of the subtitle Skvorecky gave it: "An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents,
Love and Death."

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We rejoin Danny Smiricky (from THE COWARDS), as an expatriate professor in Toronto, where he explores his present life of pretty student, and Czech secret agents, as well as some of the unresolved stories of his past during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia during World War II.

This is a book I have not read for many years, but since it does not have many reviews here, I'd like to add a few words. It is a magnificent novel - complex, readable, nostalgic, irreverent and often funny. Like several of Škvorecký's other books, it is partly a semi-autobiographical rites of passage story about the life of Danny, a young teacher in post-war Czechoslovakia, this one is also partly about his later life in exile in Canada.

We live in a world of absurd circumstances, accidental, perhaps the unfathomable caprices of a cruelly jesting God I find that there is potentially a lot to say about this book, but, at the same time, in its straightforwardness, there might not be much that is necessary.The book is centered around Czech exile Danny Smiricky, a literature professor living in Canada in the 1970s. The book alternates between scenes from Dannys youth living in Czechoslovakia both during World War II and the Cold

If you want to read about the Czech post war history- at home and in exile, read this. A great book.Full of humanity. Canadians will like it, too.

Sublime, hilarious, long (but worth it), perhaps sentimental, saying orginal things about religion, playing with time, inimitable character, I wrote my thesis on it.

If Milan Kundera had gotten together with Orhan Pamuk to rewrite Snow with more of a postmodern flourish...Toss in 'the immigrant experience' and a dash of post-war paranoia, and we're getting close to this book. Absolutely loved the lit-classroom dialogues on literature and politics and the accompanying allusions and metaphors. I wasn't in love with his prose, however, as it was burdened from time to time (and time again) with cliche. Still a rich and resounding read.