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Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made his mark on the Czech literary scene; by the time of his death he was ranked with Jaroslav Hasek, Karel capek, and Milan Kundera as among the nation's greatest twentieth-century writers. Hrabal's fiction blends tragedy with humor and explores the anguish of intellectuals and ordinary people alike from a slightly surreal perspective. His work ranges from novels and poems to film scripts and essays. Rambling On is a collection of stories set in Hrabal's Kersko. Several of the stories were written before the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague but had to be reworked when they were rejected by Communist censorship during the 1970s. This edition features the original, uncensored versions of those stories.

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Publisher
Karolinum Press
ISBN-10
8024623161
ISBN-13
9788024623160
eBay Product ID (ePID)
172435740

Product Key Features

Book Title
Rambling on : an Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab
Author
Bohumil Hrabal
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Item Length
0.7in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.5in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz

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Pg5039.18.R2
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The characters . . . ah, these creations are wonderful. . . . The stories are funny and often frivolous, but they also take on a serious and bittersweet tone when broken dreams of what might have been come into play. . . . This collection would be an excellent starting point for a reader wanting an introduction to Hrabal's writing. Very highly recommended., One of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats and women (in roughly that order). . . . In Hrabal's work beauty, pity, sorrow and high silliness come tightly braided., Beautifully illustrated. . . . The stories humorously portray the surreal surroundings of a miniscule mountain community in the midst of a totalitarian regime, creating an exquisite fusion of calamity and comedy., An excellent introduction to the great Czech writer, in both content and form: the book is beautifully bound into a cloth cover and features an impressive number of collages by Jir Grus that illustrate magnificently the whimsy of Hrabal's prose. The book is a delight to hold and to read., The characters . . . ah, these creations are wonderful. . . . The stories are funny and often frivolous, but they also take on a serious and bittersweet tone when broken dreams of what might have been come into play. . . . This collection would be an excellent starting point for a reader wanting an introduction to Hrabal's writing. Very highly recommended., Delightful tales of mischief and wonder set in and around the author's Kersko hideaway. Short's translation captures the rough jewels of Hrabal's rhythmic and roaming phrase-making, which, more often than not, culminates in an astonishing tenderness laden with little wisdoms., Hrabal is not only a consistently entertaining storyteller, but some of his novels and stories are comic masterpieces that I wouldn't advise bringing on planes or to doctors' waiting rooms, where those overhearing your cackling may get the wrong idea and summon someone in authority to intervene. Serious works of literature that make us laugh uncontrollably are rare. When one remembers that Hrabal lived in a country and at a time in European history when there was absolutely nothing to laugh about, one's amazement at what he accomplished is even greater., An excellent introduction to the great Czech writer, in both content and form: the book is beautifully bound into a cloth cover and features an impressive number of collages by Jirí Grus that illustrate magnificently the whimsy of Hrabal's prose. The book is a delight to hold and to read.
Table of Content
1 The St. Bernard Inn 2 A Moonlit Night 3 Mr. Methie 4 A Feral Cow 5 A Grand Piano Rabbit Hutch 6 Jumbo 7 Mazánek's Wonder 8 The Snowdrop Festival 9 Friends 10 Fining Salami 11 Leli 12 Beatrice 13 Lucy and Polly 14 The Feast 15 Ionic Man 16 Hair Like Pivarník's 17 The Maid of Honour 18 Adagio Lamentoso 19 An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab Afterword Translator's Notes
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
891.86354
Series
Modern Czech Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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