Pan Theodor Mundstock

Pan Theodor Mundstock (Mr. Theodore Mundstock) is the debut novel by Czech author Ladislav Fuks, first published in 1963.[1] The English translation by Iris Urwin was published by Orion Press, New York, in 1968.[2]

It tells the story of a Jew in Prague in 1942, during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, who is waiting to be deported to the concentration camps but trying to maintain as normal an existence as possible.[2] When the occupying Nazis force him to leave the rope shop he owns, Mundstock's psyche starts to crack. Seeing the camps as inevitable, he later starts practising for life in them.[3]

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