Description
A once-promising documentary filmmaker, Pavel, is pulled into a life of state-controlled work, where every assignment feels like a compromise between the ideals he once believed in and the temptations of a freedom he can’t quite reach. As the novel moves between Pavel’s lived reality and the films he imagines making, it explores how art, memory, and imagination can both resist and accommodate power. With Ivan Klima’s sharp, reflective style, the story becomes a meditation on moral endurance—how long one can wait for “the light” before the “dark” of survival and self-betrayal takes over. Blending psychological tension with cinematic structure, the book asks what it truly means to choose integrity when the world offers easier exits.
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paperback
Granta
Published Jan 1, 1995
240 pages
ISBN: 9780140141023
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First Published
1995
Language
eng
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