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Title: Dryák Title Record # 1567728
Author: Josef Nesvadba
Date: 1960-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: Czech
Synopsis: In contemporary Czechoslovak research institute, the narrator witnesses an American's search for medieval elixir of (temporary) immortality. The story is an admitted variation on Karel Čapek's The Makropoulos Case.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1962Translated by Erich Bertleff
German Theriak
1965Translated by Mirko Jirsak
Croatian Dryak
1968Translated by Elisabeth Borchardt
German Theriak
1969
  • Title means "The Elixir".
  • Translated by Sanda Apostolescu.
Romanian Elixirul

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Die Erfindung gegen sich selbst 1962-00-00 Josef Nesvadba Neff     157
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Willi Bahner Checkmark
Tragovima snježnog čovjeka?Tragovima snjezhnog chovjeka
Tragovima snjeznog covjeka
1965-00-00 Josef Nesvadba Epoha (Zabavna biblioteka)     192
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Wie Kapitän Nemo starb 1968-00-00 Josef Nesvadba Das Neue Berlin  
M 5.90?M: East German mark
204
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Klaus Ensikat  
Idiotul din Xeenemuende 1969-00-00 Josef Nesvadba Editura Tineretului (
Colecția SF (2nd series)?Colectsia SF (2nd series)
Colectia SF (2nd series)
)
    192
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
coll Henry Mavrodin  
Einsteins Gehirn 1975-03-00 Josef Nesvadba Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3430) 3-453-30320-2
DM 3.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
156
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll C. A. M. Thole Checkmark
Wie Kapitän Nemo starb 1978-00-00 Josef Nesvadba Das Neue Berlin  
M 5.90?M: East German mark
249+
[3]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Klaus Ensikat  
Wie Kapitän Nemo starb 1981-00-00 Josef Nesvadba Das Neue Berlin 6223808
M 5.90?M: East German mark
249+
[3]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Klaus Ensikat Checkmark
Die absolute Maschine 1983-00-00 Josef Nesvadba Suhrkamp (Phantastische Bibliothek #112) 3-518-37461-3
DM 9.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
242
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Thomas Franke  
Wie Kapitän Nemo starb 1990-00-00 Josef Nesvadba Das Neue Berlin (SF-Utopia) 3-360-00318-7
M 5.40?M: East German mark
189
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Regine Schulz , Burckhard Labowski Checkmark
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