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'Sekyra' ('The Axe') is a 1966 novel by the Czech author Ludvk Vaculk. Like Milan Kundera's 'The Joke' (1967), 'The Axe' was an influential novel in Czechoslovakia during the 1960s cultural awakening.Eva Eckert 'Varieties of Czech: Studies in Czech Sociolinguistics' - 1993 p 125 905183490X "Vaculik goes decidedly against the trend of modern Czech literature by using his native Valachian dialect with its distinctive vocabulary and inflection. For example, many characters in his novel The Axe or some personages in his feuilletons ..." 'Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century' European Association for Jewish Studies. Congress, Judit Targarona Borrs, ngel Senz-Badillos - 19999004115587 "The novel The Axe... later became the basis for a play and a film. Its story is about a butcher who once performs the duties of the hangman who has fallen ill and kills some opponents of the Nazi regime in charge of this regime. " 'The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture' 0299222837 Alfred Thomas - 2007 Another important treatment of the breakdown of familial relations is Ludvk Vaculk's novel The Axe (1966). The story is set during ...

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