Book record
The Lesser Histories
Jan Zábrana
Translated from Czech by Justin Quinn
The Lesser Histories, by Jan Zábrana, is a Czech poetry collection from Czechoslovakia, translated by Justin Quinn, published by Karolinum Press. It is a Czech collection by Jan Zábrana that turns toward history at a scale smaller than monument. The title is valuable because it insists that lesser histories are not lesser in feeling; they are the places where ordinary lives keep their evidence. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Publisher
- Karolinum Press
- Language
- Czech
- Country
- Czechoslovakia