Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: A Novel - Hardcover

Hrabal, Bohumil; Heim, Michael Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151238103 ISBN 13: 9780151238101

Publisher: Harcourt, 1995

Synopsis

An old man, a shoemaker who once wore a pince-nez and carried a stick with a silver mounting because he wanted to look like a composer, tells the story of his life to six youn, beautiful women basking in the sun. One drunken thought triggers another. Amorous conquests alternate with sundry mishaps and in the exuberant telling acquire the same weight and substance as earth-shattering events. To say nothing of the historical perspective, which the self-styled "engineer of human feet" bends at random to suit his mood. Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age displays the inimitable Czech master at his playful best.

About this title

About the Author:

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Moravia and started writing poems under the influence of French surrealism. In the early 1950s he began to experiment with a stream-of-consciousness style, and eventually wrote such classics as Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel), The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, and Too Loud a Solitude. He fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0151238103
• ISBN 13: 9780151238101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128