by Pavel Kohout · Ultramar. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788473862271
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«La verduga» is the novel by Czech writer Pavel Kohout, published by Ultramar in paperback (394 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is a ferocious satire against all kinds of totalitarianism, set in an oppressive political and social context. The main character is dragged along by a chain of events that call into question his morality and his role in society.
Edition from the Best Seller collection, number 203. Translated from German by Yolanda Salvá Yenes; original work: Katině. It won the Austrian State Grand Prize for European Literature.
For readers of political satire and Central European twentieth-century fiction.
Pavel Kohout is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring participant and dissident in the 1970s until he was not allowed to return from Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.
