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In his prose as well as in his poetry, Miroslav Holub, a distinguished immunologist and a great poet, combines a scientific gift for accurate observation with a poetic impulse to imagine.
The wanton assassination of a musk rat by a neighbour provokes in Holub a meticulous examination of the nature of survival - an account of how the cells of the dead animal desperately continue to perform their functions for a long time after the rat is officially dead. Readers attuned to the politics of central Europe may discover here, and elsewhere in the book, a concealed allegory as well as a lucid scientific exposition. ISBN:9780571143382
