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Murder Ballads and Legends /

"This translation is based on the first edition of Morytáty a legendy, published in 1968 by Československý spisovatel. The images that accompany each story are from woodcuts originally created for old broadside ballads and reproduced as illustrations for that first edition. Morytáty a legen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914-1997 (Autor)
Otros Autores: West, Timothy, 1969- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Checo
Publicado: Slavica : Bloomington, Indiana, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Translator's introduction
  • A ballad written by my readers
  • The legend of Egon Bondy and Vladimírek
  • The ballad of a pig banquet
  • The legend of lammertz needles
  • A May murder ballad, or it was a quiet night in May
  • The legend of Julinka
  • The legend of Cain
  • The ballad of the queen of the night
  • A legend played on strings stretched between cradle and coffin
  • The ballad of the world travelers
  • A ballad on the murder of Anežka Hrůzová
  • Ballad of a public execution
  • Post-script.