Bibliographic record
Abstract
Josef Škvorecký completed the first version of the novel Konec nylonového věku (End of the Nylon Age) in 1950. In the view of the historical circumstances at that time, publication of the book did not enter into consideration, but in 1957 Československý spisovatel publishers included the manuscript in their publication plan. After the censors intervened, however, the book again failed to come out and did not get to readers until 1967. This study and edition of the work (p. 556-585) primarily compares the book form of the novel with the oldest typewritten version, which is nowadays housed at the Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library in Toronto. To some extent the author also considers the 1957 version, from which, however, only a few textually unreliable fragments remain in the censor's writings. Although when Škvorecký was preparing the book version in 1957 and 1967 he was unable to recall the social and political circumstances at the time, a comparison of both versions in particularly telling with regard to the author's development. The experience that he acquired through working as an author, translator and editor was reflected in the final version. The plot and motif linek of the text remain more or less the same, while changes are evident primarily at the stylistic and lexical levels which lead to greater emphasis on and precision in the personal perspective of the narrative. Changes in the names of the chief protagonists are primarily noticeable in view of the development which they then undergo through the author's subsequent novels.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".