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I Served The King Of England: Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL ‘Our very best writer today’ Milan Kundera Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of…

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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

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This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic’s best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play…

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All My Cats

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A literary master’s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail (Julian Barnes)

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Mr Kafka

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Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall.

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Dancing Lessons For The Advanced

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Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more.

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Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp: An Interview-novel with Questions Asked and Answers Recorded by Laszlo Szigeti

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Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point…

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Why I Write?: The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952

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Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal’s later virtuosity.

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A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett… . Early work from…

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Yo Servi Al Rey de Inglaterra

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Too Loud a Solitude

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A short novel by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, this eccentric romp celebrates the indestructability–against censorship and political oppression–of the written word.

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Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait

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Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar…

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In-House Weddings

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Inspired by Mrs Tolstoy and Mrs Dostoevsky, whose biographies about their husbands have been published in Prague, the author presents his own autobiographical work, ostensibly fiction, from his wife’s point…

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Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka

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In these letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) chronicles the momentous events of those years as seen, more often than…

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Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult

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Wonderful stories of Communist Prague by the masterly Bohumil Hrabal (The New Yorker)

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I Served the King of England

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In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset…

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Harlequin’s Millions

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A poignant, very funny novel full of unforgettable characters who reminisce about their changing country.

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Closely Watched Trains

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At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this…

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The Little Town Where Time Stood Still

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From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply…

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Cutting It Short

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Set in a small town in Czechoslovakia at the end of the War, this is the story of the wayward wife of a brewery manager. Maryska is wild and exuberant…

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All My Cats

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A literary master’s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail (Julian Barnes)

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Rambling On

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Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. This book offers…

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The Death of Mr. Baltisberger

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A collection of 14 stories which are hard-edged yet possess warmth and humour. Their subjects are drinking, motorcycling and palavering .

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Closely Watched Trains

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Hrabal’s postwar classic about a young man’s coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most popular works. Milos Hrma is a timid railroad apprentice who insulates himself with…

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Rambling On: An Apprentice’s Guide to the Gift of the Gab

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Hrabal s books are distinctive witness to the life of ordinary people only at first glance. In the book, Rambling on await the reader stories set in the popular Hrabal…

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Bilder Aus Der Tiefe Der Zeit: Erinnerung Und Selbststilisierung ALS Aesthetische Funktionen Im Werk Bohumil Hrabals

Alexander Gotz

Der Tod Bohumil Hrabals 1997 hat das Werk dieses neben Milan Kundera bekanntesten und bedeutendsten tschechischen Nachkriegsautors erneut in das Blickfeld von Literaturwissenschaft und Lesepublikum geruckt. Anhand der nun vorliegenden…

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The Tender Barbarian: Pedagogic Texts

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A novel and texts by Bohumil Hrabal about the graphic artist Vladimir Boudnik, including Boudnik’s Explosionalist texts and artwork.

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