story: “An Insolvable Problem of Genetics”
author: Josef Skvorecky
year: 1966
where: Casa dolce casa
note: A writer of ‘text-appeals’ in the mid-sixties in Czechoslovakia, which “somewhat resembled the celebrated jazz-and-poetry readings in San Francisco in the Beatnik Era, only it had nothing to do with poetry, although there was plenty of Jazz,” says Skvorecky.
a line: “While offering a brotherly hand to many nations, our fatherland also harbours a certain number of dark-skinned African students; some of these undergo preparatory courses in the Czech language in our town.”
theme(s): Race, nationalism, egalitarianism, Communism
samantha Neugebauer 
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