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Miss Silver's Past
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Wikipedia article
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| author = Josef kvoreck
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| translator = Peter Kussi
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| cover_artist = Karel Latovka
| country = Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
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| genre = Satire, Detective fiction
| set_in = Prague, early/mid 1960s
| publisher = eskoslovensk spisovatel
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| pub_date = 1969
| english_pub_date = 1974
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| media_type = Print: hardback
| pages = 268
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| dewey = 891.86
| congress = PG5038 .S527
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'Miss Silver's Past' (, "Lion Cub") is a 1969 novel by Czech author Josef kvoreck.
Written between 1963 and 1967 (prior to the Prague Spring), it was published after it.
Plot
Karel Leden works at a publisher's in Communist Czechoslovakia. He meets Lenka Silver, a Jewish woman with a mysterious past.
Reception
Gleb ekulin wrote that 'Lve' "confirmed [kvoreck] as the leading Czech prose writer of the post-Stalin era." Mavis Gallant also admired 'Miss Silver's Past'.
'Kirkus Reviews' was scathing, saying "even the apparatchiks' wrangles over how and whether to publish a blockbuster novel are only mechanically amusing. And, in Czech fashion, the byplay of seduction is used to underline the camaraderie of the seducers while the women remain objects, and nothing human ever takes place. kvoreck's style is trite and trivial."
Adaptation
The film was adapted for Czechoslovak television in 1969, under the title 'Flirt se slenou Stbrnou' ("Flirting with Miss Stbrn").
References
Category:1969 novels
Category:20th-century Czech novels
Category:Novels set in Prague
Category:Novels about communism
Category:Novels set in Czechoslovakia
Category:Censorship in the arts
Category:Literature controversies
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