Marketa Lazarova - Vladislav Vancura Raymond Roussel With the dwarves and animals

With the dwarves and animals cheerfully working and playing on one side

—Merve Emre

What need is there for nature when trees and flowers can be pushed up through holes in the plastic

May Sinclair (‘Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched”)

literary criticism

Marketa Lazarova - Vladislav Vancura Raymond Roussel With the dwarves and animalsMarketa Lazarova by Vladislav Vancura ISBN 9788086264431 183 page hardcover from Twisted Spoon Press (Czech) Very attractive little book. Cover by Dan Mayer. *** Cinematic in approach to draw the reader into the action, as if it were happening right before one's eyes, Marketa Lazarova deserves its place among the classics of interwar modernism, and it was awarded Czechoslovakia's State Prize for Literature upon its publication in 1931. Yet the novel