Indecent Dreams
by Arnost Lustig
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9780810109094,
Paperback,
Northwestern Univ Pr,
1990
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9780810107731,
Hardcover,
Northwestern Univ Pr,
1988
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Publisher Notes
In the three novellas that comprise INDECENT DREAMS, Arnost Lustig explores the existential interiors of those at the margin of disaster. A German prostitute assigned to Prague, a girl in a Nazi home for orphans, and a young woman working as a cashier in a movie theater lose themselves in a world of cruelty and collapsing social order while their inner worlds teem with the fascination of life--sexual fantasy, naive idealism, vengefulness, inchoate visions of justice. The indecent dreams which Lutig's protagonists imagine for themselves cannot compare with the obscenity of injustice, cruelty, and domination legitimated by the Nazi imagination. These are not stories about the war; they are stories about the endless conflict in any individual who resists the brutality and, finally, the stupidity of dehumanizing power.
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"I know of very few stories that express so vividly the madness of the stream-of-consciousness of people living on the brink of death...They are unlike anything in the vast artistically rendered aspect of the great killing."
First Line
The old woman's complexion was like the bark of a tree.
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