Editore: Northwestern University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0810107732 ISBN 13: 9780810107731
Da: Jason Books, Auckland, AUCKL, Nuova Zelanda
Hardback. 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, naive 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.".