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In these three novellas, Arnost Lustig explores the existential interiors of those at the margin of disaster. A German prostitute assigned to Prague, a girl in a Nazi home for orphans, and a young woman working as a cashier in a movie theater lose themselves in a world of cruelty and collapsing social order--while their inner worlds teem with sexual fantasy, naïve idealism, vengefulness, and visions of justice. Yet these so-called indecent dreams cannot compare with the obscenity of cruelty and domination legitimated by the Nazi imagination.
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Indecent Dreams, Arnošt Lustig
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- Released
- 1988
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- Title
- Indecent Dreams
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Arnošt Lustig
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 159
- ISBN10
- 0810107732
- ISBN13
- 9780810107731
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Czech Literature, Holocaust
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
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- In these three novellas, Arnost Lustig explores the existential interiors of those at the margin of disaster. A German prostitute assigned to Prague, a girl in a Nazi home for orphans, and a young woman working as a cashier in a movie theater lose themselves in a world of cruelty and collapsing social order--while their inner worlds teem with sexual fantasy, naïve idealism, vengefulness, and visions of justice. Yet these so-called indecent dreams cannot compare with the obscenity of cruelty and domination legitimated by the Nazi imagination.