Rambling On â An Apprenticeâ ²s Guide to the Gift of the Gab (Modern Czech Classics)

Hrabal, Bohumil

ISBN 10: 8024632861 / ISBN 13: 9788024632865

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2016

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Inhaltsangabe:

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 Hašek, 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Bohumil Hrabal (1914&;97) was a celebrated Czech writer whose books include Closely Watched Trains, which was adapted into an Academy Award&;winning film, I Served the King of England, and Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp. A retired teacher of Czech and Slovak, David Short has increasingly worked as a translator. He is the author of a popular Czech textbook, coauthor of a number of publications in the field of linguistics, and the translator of a score or so of books from Czech.

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Titel: Rambling On â An Apprenticeâ ²s Guide to ...
Verlag: University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good