Tajemství Joe Goulda

The American journalist Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996) became famous for his specific reports that appeared in the American New Yorker magazine in the middle of the last century. The two texts presented here, Professor Seagull (1942) and The Secret of Joe Gould (1964), are linked by the same character: the homeless bohemian pimp Joe Gould. All his life he has been writing what he calls "the longest book in the world," which he calls Oral History. These Mitchell texts are a compelling record of a tragic human fate and an extraordinary testament to Mitchell's literary-journalistic method.

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