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157 LOGOS LOGOS 17/3 © LOGOS My Life in Print Michael Zifcak Lothian Books; South Melbourne, Australia; 2006 210 pp hardcover ISBN 0-7344-0879-X A$45 When Michael Zifcak, who was eventually to become one of Australia’s leading bookmen, arrived with his wife Ludmila as an immigrant in Melbourne in 1950, he had in his luggage three hundred spectacle frames. The Australian customs officer who screened them accused him and his wife of trying to smuggle the items into the country. When Zifcak explained that these were samples with which he wanted to start a business, the customs officer, failing to understand his rudimentary English, retorted: “Come again”. Taking the remark literally, Zifcak began repacking his bags to go back to the end of the queue to start all over. This real- world lesson in colloquial English could also serve as a leitmotif of Zifcak’s life, or rather his two lives. Born in 1918 in Dobsina, a village in Slovakia, he fled the communist bloc as a young man and then struggled for two years as a refugee in Western Europe, before emigrating to Australia where he then spent the remainder of his life as a bookseller and publisher. Indeed
Logos – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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