SOURCE: A review of The Bride of Texas, in World Literature Today, Vol. 70, No. 4, Autumn, 1996, p. 988.

In the following review, Czerwinski lauds Škvorecký for his scholarship and narrative skills in The Bride of Texas.

All the ingredients of an epic are found in Josef Škvorecký's latest novel The Bride of Texas, originally issued in Czech as Nevesta z Texasu by the author's own highly acclaimed Sixty-Eight Publishers Corporation, located in Toronto: the American Civil War provides a colorful and tragic background for the escapades of a group of Czech émigrés, fleeing the oppression of the Habsburg Empire. Their Schweikian heroics are contrasted with the real-life saga of American soldiers. Rarely can the reader detect the line separating actual events from fictive invention. The Czech soldiers who fought on the Union side in the Wisconsin Battalion under General William Tecumseh Sherman prove their courage and...