A Simple Twist of Fate

"A Simple Twist of Fate" Novel by Jan Ondřej Havlak, 1921, Krilovioc & Hrbski Vidavatel, Blansko, Moravia, Czechoslovakia, Hardcover, 508 pages, no graphics.
Mr. Havlak is an extremely talented writer, his book is imaginative and well written, interesting and beautiful ... for me, a very pleasant read. Strange novel that depicts, describes, documents and details a twelve hour period that starts one Wednesday evening at eight, part of the ongoing love story between Karla Kvitova, 21, a beautiful medical student and Horymir Klima, 27, a talented musician (saxophone player) from a wealthy local family. The unnamed location may be České Budějovice, on the Vltava. From the opening scene when "they sat together in the park" through their walk by the old canal, past the arcade all the way to a strange hotel where, later, Horymir wakes up and the room is bare, feeling the emptiness inside and hearing the clicking of the clock and then hunting Karla with the help of a blind man at the gate (holding a cup with a few coins), finally ending up at "the waterfront docks, where the sailors all come in", it is a great example of stream-of-consciousness writing, then, a new and revolutionary method of creation. The book ends just a couple of minutes shy of eight in the morning, on Thursday, when Cymbeline walks by with a parrot that talks and our hero concludes that all he experienced (or imagined) ought to be blamed on a simple twist of fate, one to which he could not relate. Yes.
I read and reviewed this volume as part me cataloguing and creating an inventory of the books found as part of the "The Evart-Gunn Publishing Company Book Salvage Operation" (see first entry of this blog).