The Back of Beyond : : Travels with Benjamin / / Martin Vopěnka.
Martin Vopěnka’s novel, The Back of Beyond—Travels with Benjamin, is the story of a middle-aged man, who—despite his professional success and affluence—lacks fulfillment. After the tragic death of his wife, he is left alone with his eight-year-old son and quickly realizes that if he wants to succeed...
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Vopěnka, Martin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Back of Beyond : Travels with Benjamin / Martin Vopěnka. Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (310 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter I A Painful Liberation and Challenge to a Journey -- Chapter II The Journey Leads First Along Asphalt Roads -- Chapter III The Journey to the Back of Beyond Starts in Earnest -- Chapter IV The Journey Moves Further from its Starting Point -- Chapter V The Journey is Lost in a Mist of Forgetting and Re-Emergence -- Chapter VI The Hell of Loss and the Purgatory before Entering the Paradise of the Heart -- Chapter VII Epilogue restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Martin Vopěnka’s novel, The Back of Beyond—Travels with Benjamin, is the story of a middle-aged man, who—despite his professional success and affluence—lacks fulfillment. After the tragic death of his wife, he is left alone with his eight-year-old son and quickly realizes that if he wants to succeed in the role of single parent that has suddenly been thrust upon him, he has to change fundamentally. So, he takes his son and sets out on a journey to what he dubs the Back of Beyond. Without telling anyone of their plans—in fact, without any plans to speak of—father and son travel from city to city, from country to country, assembling a travelogue that includes not only depictions of exotic places and colorful encounters, but also an inner journey, deep into the human experience and the complexities of living in a post-communist world. With its unique blend of sensitive and suggestive language, The Back of Beyond - Travels with Benjamin is a stylistic gem, rendered in seamless translation and appearing here for the first time in English. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) Single fathers Fiction. Voyages and travels Fiction. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Czech writers. life journey. literary fiction. literature in translation. Bryson, Anna, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110743227 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781951508135?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781951508135 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781951508135/original |
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