Three Novels: Hordural · An Ordinary Life · Meteor
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
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This landmark volume gathers three of Karel Čapek's most philosophically rich works of Czech literary fiction — Hordubal, An Ordinary Life, and Meteor — forming what is known as his celebrated Noetic Trilogy, a sequence united by a profound meditation on the nature of truth, identity, and human perception. Hordubal chronicles the tragic return of a Slovak peasant from years of labor in America, only to find his world irrevocably changed, unfolding with the quiet, devastating tension of a rural crime narrative. Meteor presents the same mysterious story of an unidentified man told through three radically different perspectives — a nun, a clairvoyant, and a poet — illustrating how subjective experience shapes and distorts reality. An Ordinary Life rounds out the trilogy with a retired railway official who, in writing his memoirs, uncovers a startling multiplicity of selves hidden beneath what he assumed was a simple, unremarkable existence. Together, the three novels argue with elegant, humanist conviction that no single account of a life — or a truth — can ever be complete, making this collection an essential cornerstone of twentieth-century European literature.
Author: Karel Čapek
Format: Hardback
Published: 1948, George Allen and Unwin Ltd
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
This landmark volume gathers three of Karel Čapek's most philosophically rich works of Czech literary fiction — Hordubal, An Ordinary Life, and Meteor — forming what is known as his celebrated Noetic Trilogy, a sequence united by a profound meditation on the nature of truth, identity, and human perception. Hordubal chronicles the tragic return of a Slovak peasant from years of labor in America, only to find his world irrevocably changed, unfolding with the quiet, devastating tension of a rural crime narrative. Meteor presents the same mysterious story of an unidentified man told through three radically different perspectives — a nun, a clairvoyant, and a poet — illustrating how subjective experience shapes and distorts reality. An Ordinary Life rounds out the trilogy with a retired railway official who, in writing his memoirs, uncovers a startling multiplicity of selves hidden beneath what he assumed was a simple, unremarkable existence. Together, the three novels argue with elegant, humanist conviction that no single account of a life — or a truth — can ever be complete, making this collection an essential cornerstone of twentieth-century European literature.