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	FT.com / Home UK / UK - Arts interview: Ivan Klima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Queues formed in the streets of Prague for the novels and short stories of Ivan Klima, a writer and dissident whom the communists had denied the right to publish, and even to hold down a decent job, after he called for the abolition of censorship in 1970.
		Klima did not thunder in his books against the communist system, nor even make it his main subject matter, although his contempt for it was clear.
		But Klima has been marked more by the isolation of his own generation, when the freedom to travel and to perfect a foreign language was a privilege rarely granted by the government.
	www.ft.com /cms/a/92d94ba6-24e4-11d8-81c6-08209b00dd01,gaid=040102003727,print=yes.html (2125 words)

	The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
		For American readers of Eastern European literature, the arrival of a new novel by the Czech dissident writer Ivan Klima is a noteworthy and anticipated event.
		Klima's "Judge on Trial," a many-layered story of a Communist judge who compromised his way through life, was hailed by Western critics last year as a landmark work about the mentality of the apparatchiks who ran the Czech dictatorship.
		Klima, who was banned from writing in 1970; one of the interim jobs he found was as a surveyor.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/02/22/home/klima-profile.html (1096 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lovers for a Day: Books: Ivan Klima,Gerald Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Klima's tales are sorted into three unequal sections: "Lovers for One Night" collects five stories from the 1960s, while "Intimate Conversations" and "About Love and Death" hold seven from the '80s and '90s.
		I love Czech literature; Ivan Klima is one of my favorite authors and LOVERS FOR A DAY is one of my favorite collections of stories.
		Klima, a very insightful writer, and one who is more romantic than his illustrious contemporary, Milan Kundera, illustrates this beautifully.
	www.amazon.ca /Lovers-Day-Ivan-Klima/dp/0802116515 (1448 words)

	BBC News \| Iron Curtain \| Czech writer's path to fame
		Ivan Klima is not a man to whom fame seems to come easily.
		But Ivan Kilma's life has been anything but ordinary, from Nazi prisoner to political activist to celebrated international author, his life story is something a novelist could have dreamt up.
		Klima's novels are certainly not as radical as the long ban on his work would have people believe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/09/99/iron_curtain/502018.stm (719 words)

	Amazon.ca: My Golden Trades: Books: Ivan Klima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Klima, a well-known dissident who was forced to take a series of blue-collar and menial jobs to support himself, is of course ironically referring to his own position as an outcast in Czech society.
		As is clear from this collection, whatever Klima suffered was more than compensated for by his access to people he would never otherwise have come in contact with.
		Prohibited by the Communist government from pursuing his authorial profession, the narrator of these gentle, low-key stories is compelled to survive by undertaking various menial jobs-"golden trades"-which Klima uses not as the subjects of his tales but as opportunities to say what he feels must be said.
	www.amazon.ca /My-Golden-Trades-Ivan-Klima/dp/0140142223 (357 words)

	Klima-Kundera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Both Ivan Klima's Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light (1993, English edition 1994), and Milan Kundera's Slowness (1995, English edition 1996) base themselves on the juxtaposition of two different times and worlds, a juxtaposition which induces various speculations on the nature of contemporary existence.
		In Klima's novel, the way to survive is (was) through the utopian dimension of such internalized and non-realized existences, through the belief that--if only given a chance--one could be so very much more than one actually is. Pavel dreams of making a grand film, a film which would prove his artistry and justify his life.
		Klima masterfully articulates a moment in which the change of the political environment induces unpredictable shifts in the ways in which people perceive themselves and the world around them.
	aatseel.org /book-reviews/klima-kundera.html (1608 words)

	Granta: Ivan Klíma
		Ivan Klíma was born in Prague in 1931.
		His father was Jewish, and although Klima was raised as a Protestant, he spent over three years in a Nazi camp during World War II.
		He became a successful author and playwright, but his writings were considered radical and he was labelled a dissident, which cost him his job and led to his work being banned in Czechoslovakia.
	www.granta.com /authors/28 (405 words)

	Klima,Ivan Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Klima's acclaimed novel, set in Czechoslovakia before the Velvet Revolution in 1989, is about a writer whose work is censored by the state.
		Klima invokes the spirit of the city that shaped him: ironical, cultured, accustomed to adversity but full of hope.
		Ivan Klima provides the life of fellow Czech writer Karel Capek (1890-1938), the author of the famous R.U.R.: ROSSUMS UNIVERSAL ROBOTS, in which he coined the word "robot." He was also an outspoken critic of both Nazism and America.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Klima,Ivan (1052 words)

	Boston Globe Online / From the Archives / Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Klima understands the petty criminal, the yearning wife, the adulterous minister, and feels equal compassion for all.
		Part of the power of Klima's creation stems from his writing characters strong enough to claim at least partial responsibility for their fates -- the debacle of Bara's marriage is also part of her own making.
		Klima's countryman Milan Kundera has noted that, historically, the novel has been much more than just a mirror in which the West has examined its latest wrinkles -- it has been above all the art of the impossible, relying on the imagination as a means for exploring as-yet hidden regions of the psyche.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/books/ivan_klima.htm (1287 words)

	Featured Author: Ivan Klima
		Klima was probably never entirely happy in the intellectual's novel, the novel of ideas.
		Klima's life, his literary values and his personal experience of Czech history.
		Banned as a dissident writer under the Communist regime, Ivan Klima waited 19 years for his works to be published in his native Czechoslovakia.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/02/22/home/klima.html (474 words)

	Amazon.com: Judge On Trial: Books: Ivan Klima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Klima asserts that "if man wants to survive in the situation of immediate threat, he must adapt himself, must accept even the worst circumstances as a given and then strive...
		Klima weaves the story of the case -- a man gases two people to death -- with that of the judge's own life of surviving childhood illness, World War II, and the moral opprobriums of post-1968 Czechoslovakia.
		What comes of this experience is a dual biography of the same person: on one hand a judge who has had to compromise his own sense of justice for the sake of his career, and on the other, a man whose every compromise seals his fate to tragic mediocrity.
	www.amazon.com /Judge-Trial-Ivan-Klima/dp/0679737561 (1291 words)

	Amazon.com: Love and Garbage: Books: Ivan Klima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Klima wrote this sensuously romantic novel on the timeless theme of the clandestine love affair in response to the misogyny and cynicism he perceived in his countryman Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
		Klima comments elsewhere that he took on the garbageman job as "research" for a novel.
		Klima covers many of the themes found in other Czech literature written during the rule of the communist regime: love, hate, body, soul, oppression, and freedom.
	www.amazon.com /Love-Garbage-Ivan-Klima/dp/0679737553 (2038 words)

	Amazon.fr : Lovers for a Day: Livres en anglais: Ivan Klima,Gerald Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Yet the book also traces the misunderstandings and frustrations, the hopes and disenchantments of an entire nation--where, ironically enough, Klíma's creations were banned until the mid-1990s.
		It's hard to know whether the translator or Klima is responsible for such clunky prose as "She knew everything.
		When he seems about to reject her, she asks, "How could he call into question the very thing that had raised them above what would otherwise be a meaningless existence?" Klima likes to stop and spell out the point he's making, in a manner alien to most modern English-language fiction.
	www.amazon.fr /Lovers-Day-Ivan-Klima/dp/0802116515 (729 words)

	Eye Weekly - Freedom and indifference - 10.21.99
		Ivan Klíma and 55 others take the stage for 20th International Festival of Authors
		According to the Czech author -- a longtime saddle sore of the former Soviet Union's puppet government with his help in leading the samizdat movement in Prague, the underground publishing of free thought and literary works by dissidents that partially led to the Velvet Revolution in 1989 -- it's pretty much official.
		Ivan Klíma reads with Wayne Johnston and Abdullah Hussein Wednesday (Oct. 27) at 8:30pm in the Brigantine Room.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.21.99/arts/ifoa-klima.php (821 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Judge On Trial by Ivan Klima
		Part thriller, part domestic tragedy, at once political and intensely personal, Ivan Kilma's epicly scaled new novel is an inquest into the compromises that turned even the best citizens of Czechoslovakia into accomplices of its late totalitarian regime.
		Ivan Klima was born in 1931 in Prague.
		He was the editor of the journal of the Czech Writer’s Union during the Prague Spring.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679737568 (79 words)

	THE ULTIMATE INTIMACY by Ivan Klima reviewed by Mike Crowl
		Ivan Klima has an established reputation as an author of subtle stories about the human heart, and is normally more than successful in his work.
		The dust jacket asks the question; "Which is stronger - a faith without doubts or a faith that contends with doubts?" Not a new question, but always an interesting one, and one that Graham Greene worked through on a number of occasions.
		Klima explores this question by showing us a minister who is simultaneously having a crisis of faith and an affair with a member of his congregation.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/4657/book/ui1.html (290 words)

	Welcome to Paul Wilson's Web site
		Ivan Klima was in the United States when Russian tanks entered Prague in 1968, but, against the advice of friends and colleagues, he returned home.
		Ivan Klima had never imagined that he would become a smuggler.
		(Klima had read the transcripts of his interrogation) However, though these experiences haunted him, they seemed of limited use when he was being pursued through the streets of Prague, three bags of 'banned' books hidden under a basket of laundry in the back of his car.
	www.paulwilson.ca /pw_books/klima.html (586 words)

	Between Security and Insecurity - Ivan Klíma
		In nineteen chapters (and a preface) covering less than a hundred pages Ivan Klíma offers reflections on the present and the future.
		Czech author Ivan Klíma was born in Prague in 1931.
		He is the author of numerous acclaimed novels and his work has been translated into 30 languages.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/klimai/bsandi.htm (1010 words)

	Between Security and Insecurity -- Ivan Klima Gerry A. Turner
		As a young boy he was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp and as an adult he was a banned writer in Communist Czechlosovakia.
		Being the victim of the excesses of two of the most prominent secular belief systems, Klima’s views on the search for meaning and security in the modern world are especially insightful.
		Klima notes that the fading away of traditional belief systems has led to insecurity that in turn has led individuals to look towards more extreme and even diaboloical alternatives, whether it be Communism or the Heaven’s Gate Sect.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0500281580 (192 words)

	No Saints or Angels -- book review
		Ivan Klima is partial to imperfection, and thus we position ourselves in a jagged, steadfast, resolute stance, sifting towards an unexpected, imperceptible event, where suddenly a rift forms, a fissure, a fiat, and we become awkwardly enmeshed, clamoring beneath the sensuous caress of beauty, of a life lived and living.
		Ivan Klima, at once expository and prophetic, comments on the familiarity of the absurd.
		But Klima raises the ubiquitous landing zone and endears the reader to become callow, almost prurient in his multifarious connections.
	www.curledup.com /nosaints.htm (806 words)

	Agni Online
		He was born in Prague in 1931 and spent his early childhood as a relatively privileged offspring of an upper-middle-class Jewish engineer.
		The serenity of young Ivan's childhood-and his very innocence-ended abruptly in December 1941.
		Ivan and his mother, father and younger brother were sent to Terezín, a Nazi concentration camp near Prague.
	webdelsol.com /AGNI/essays2.html (2044 words)

	Ivan Klima - no nostalgia for "Mythical Prague" of pre-1989 - 25-05-2004 - Radio Prague
		Rob Cameron's guest in this week's One on One is the writer Ivan Klima, one of the most important cultural figures in the Czech Republic.
		Ivan Klima was born in Prague in 1931, and during the war was sent to the Terezin concentration camp - his father was Jewish, although he himself was raised as a Protestant.
		He later became a successful author, but was labelled a dissident by the Communist authorities and his writings were banned.
	www.radio.cz /en/issue/54245 (1130 words)

	My Merry Mornings : Stories from Prague - Ivan Klima - Review - A monitored week in the life of
		George Theiner's translation of banned Czech writer Ivan Klima's 'My Merry Mornings' is a short and pleasant read of 7 short autobiographical tales, one for each day (morning) of the week.
		The second tale is a nostalgic one where a woman from Klima's past calls out of the blue in order to rekindle the joy of sex at lunchtimes in the bushes they had in their youth, unfortunately many variables have changed stunting that.
		Friday's tale sees Klima working as a hospital orderly and accounts his encounters with the characters there, a death of an elderly woman and the uncovering of a secret.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/my-merry-mornings-stories-from-prague-ivan-klima/357317 (766 words)

	THE ULTIMATE INTIMACY - COLLECTIBLE BOOK FOR SALE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"It is easy to tease out the serious themes in Ivan Klima's novel of ideas: Religious belief versus earthly love; freedom versus responsibility; skepticism versus belief and the burdens of the Communist past versus those of the capitalist present.
		Klima's exploration of one crucial year in the life of a good minister, who discovers that truth and passion can be all too distant, is no simple construction.
		In Klima's complex narrative, however, Daniel's crisis becomes a powerful drama of faith and salvation" (Publisher's blurb).
	www.modernrare.com /books/348 (232 words)

	Occasional Paper 11
		Czech writer Ivan Klima investigates the connections between fiction and history, how these seemingly different areas of inquiry bleed into one another, especially in times of political turmoil.
		Fiction can be informed by history, and history can be made fictional, when subjected to the influence of writers constrained by repressive government, governments or individuals working to justify regimes, or poets seeking to stretch the boundaries of what it is possible to speak.
		The main paper is followed by a discussion of Ivan Klima with Michael Heim, Czeslaw Milosz and Martina Moravcova of literature in post-Communist Central Europe, and a vignette written by Klima about his residency in Berkeley.
	ls.berkeley.edu /departments/townsend/op11.shtml (120 words)

	Grinnell College Libraries - Author Exhibit
		Ivan Klíma is a Czech writer who was banned in his own country by the communist government after the 1968 Prague Spring reforms.
		One of about two hundred banned Czech writers, Klíma chose not to emigrate, unlike his fellow dissidents Milan Kundera and Josef Skvorecky, preferring to stay at home and write as best he could under the existing constraints.
		During the communist government's ban on writers' work, an underground movement was formed in Czechoslovakia to circulate typewritten manuscripts among interested readers.
	www.lib.grin.edu:16080 /collections/MonthlyExhibit/klima.html (239 words)

	Ivan Klima receives Franz Kafka prize - 01-11-2002 - Radio Prague
		This week, has been a lucky week for Czech writer Ivan Klima.
		Not only was he given a Medal for Outstanding Service to the Czech Republic by Czech President Vaclav Havel, but he was also chosen as the recipient of the Franz Kafka literary prize.
		This year, the jury chose to honour the 71 year old Ivan Klima, who as a writer, essayist, and columnist is one of the most widely translated contemporary Czech authors.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/33996 (526 words)

	Klima
		Klima is slechts één van de vele goede romanschrijvers van de Tsjechische Republiek.
		Zoals Kafka beschrijven de moderne Tsjechische schrijvers een maatschappij die beperkend is en waar vrijheid ontbreekt.
		De traditie van politiek commentaar en persoonlijke visies op relaties voortzettend, geeft Ivan Klima een doordacht 'inside' beeld van de gebeurtenissen tijdens de overgang van het communisme naar het kapitalisme in de tijd van de Fluwelen Revolutie.
	members.tripod.com /Tsjechie/Klima.htm (929 words)

	Ivan Klima Infos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	www.searchbookauthor.com /103661_ivan-klima.html (116 words)

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