I Served the King of England - Softcover

Hrabal, Bohumil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679727868 ISBN 13: 9780679727866

Publisher: Vintage, 1990

Synopsis

A comic, picaresque novel set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Czech history, about the rise and fall of an ambitious busboy in Prague.

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From the Back Cover:

Isolated and impoverished, Ditie comes to a greater understanding of good and evil, and of his place in the vortex of history.

About the Author:

Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital window never to return.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0679727868
• ISBN 13: 9780679727866
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256