The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova Original Language: Czech

Original Language: Czech

an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendour and squalor

he reveals his life story: his impoverished childhood

she gazes with love at her friends

This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace

The Disappearing Act - Maria Stepanova Original Language: CzechThe writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself unable to write, unmoored in a present where the future feels unknowable. When she travels to a nearby country for an event, a twist of fate leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar city, phoneless and untraceable. Oscillating between reality and dream, written in rich, hypnotic prose, The