Patrik OuÅ™ednÃ­k,Alex Zucker
The nineteenth-century founding of â€œfree settlementsâ€ in the Americas serves as a starting point for the new novel by popular Czech author Patrik OuÅ™ednÃ­k. Simultaneously satiric and philosophical, ,The Opportune Moment, 1855,, opens with an Italian anarchistâ€™s missive to his noble former mistress, an impassioned rejection of all of Europeâ€™s latest and greatest advancements, from the Enlightenment to social reform to communist revolution. We then leap back in time half a century to the alternately somber and hilarious shipboard diary of a common Italian everyman sailing to Brazil with a motley, multinational band of idealists, to build a new society. A pitiless portrait of the often unbridgeable gap between theory and practice, ,The Opportune Moment, 1855, is another uproarious and unsettling attack on convention by one of literatureâ€™s great provocateurs.
Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction
The Opportune Moment, 1855: A Novel