Judge on Trial, Ivan Klima. Published by Vintage, USA, 1994. First Vintage Edition. Signed and dated 22.3.95 by Ivan Klima on title page. Softcover. 8vo up to 9½” tall. 560 pages. Light wear to covers and pages have light toning; otherwise in fine condition without marks, tears etc.
Judge on Trial “is an inquest into the compromises that turned even the best citizens of Czechoslovakia into accomplices of its late totalitarian regime. “Enormously powerful.”–New York Times Book Review. First published underground in Czechoslovakia in 1978, this semi-autobiographical novel was reworked by Klima n 1986 to include significant incidents from his own past. These key additions–brutally honest, emotional, reflective–have turned a political novel into a major opus. Like the author, the narrator is a Nazi concentration camp survivor and an intellectual who rethought his initial support of socialism after the show trials of the ’50s and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. 002678 $40
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