Anděl

(Exit Angel)

About the book
Original title Anděl
First published 1995
Publisher Hynek, Prague
Pages 134
ISBN number 80-85935-21-X
Languages Czech; German; French; Hungarian
Extra Director Vladimír Michálek made the film "Anděl Exit", based on the book


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Rights sold to
Germany Volk und Welt - Berlin
Hungary Kalligram - Budapest
France Éditions Robert Laffont - Paris
Turkey Norgunk Yayinlari - Istanbul
Belarus Lohvinau Literature House - Vilnius
United States Dalkey Archive Press - Victoria
Turkey (new edition) Dergah Yayinlari - Istanbul
Croatia Artikulacije - Koprivnica


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Short characterization

 It is often called a balad of Smíchov (a famous townpart of Prague) and straight at the beginning of the book, the reader is cast into the city, where streets and shops appear as if they were part of an underground labyrinth. Two worlds are in conflict with each other and the main character Jatek is not feeling at home in either of them. Nevertheless he has to live in them. He leaves one world, but he never fully reaches the other world. In each of them a strong mysterious ingredient awaits him, which turns life into life: love or drugs. In each of them the dark law of death is on the look-out for him, a pit, or the Exit Angel - the exit or death.

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Excerpt

Exit Angel

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