The Engineer of Human Souls
by Josef Skvorecky;Paul Wilson (9781564781994)

Fiction. The expression "the engineer of human souls" is held, by many political indoctrinators, to be Stalin's definition of a writer: as an engineer constructs a machine, so must a writer construct the mind of the New Man. "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 adventuresome, episodic, bawdy, comic, and literary, as any novel written in the past twenty-five years, The Engineer 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." "Josef Shvorecky is unquestionably an important writer, blending a great humorous talent with a restless, sustained, probing moral inquisitiveness..."The Engineer of Human Souls" will certainly introduce the reader to the distinctive Skvorecky world" (Ernest Gellner, Times Literary Supplement).

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