January 21, 2009

Pavel Kohout | Katyně (The Hangwoman)

Christopher Walken’s post concerning A Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution! set me to thinking.

Set me to thinking about Pavel Kohout and his 1970 novel Katyně, a book I read in the early 1980s, translated to English by Kača Poláčková-Henley and published as The Hangwoman. The titular hangwoman, a fifteen-year-old girl, enrolls in the Central Academy for Hangmen and masters the fine art of execution. I think it’s time to reread Katyně.

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  1. Lucy Foley on January 21st, 2009 at 5:41 am

    I love the elegance of that breakline in the title. I wonder if I have ever even used that key.

  2. Sheila Ryan on January 21st, 2009 at 9:19 am

    For the life of me, I can’t recall from whom I stole that trick.

  3. lucas03 on February 8th, 2009 at 10:43 am

    I just need to read that till tomorrow, I heard it is very good book about absurdity after 1945 in czecho-slovakia

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