The Questionnaire, or, Prayer for a Town & a Friend. Translated by Peter Kussi
Jan Chrysostom Kepka, the narrator of Jiri Grusa’s internationally acclaimed novel, applies for a job and is asked to fill out a standard employment questionnaire. He takes the command “DO NOT CROSS OUT!” as an order not to omit anything and he embarks on a wildly imaginative search for his origins, the real nature of […]