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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 fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. After receiving acclaim as a novel, Closely Watched Trains was made into a successful film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1967.
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Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Milos Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. Day after day as he watches trains fly by, he torments himself with the suspicion that he himself is being watched and with fears of impotency. Hrma finally affirms his manhood and, with a sense of peace and purpose he has never known before, heroically confronts a trainload of Nazis.
About the Author
Born in 1914 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, Bohumil Hrabal worked as a lawyer, clerk, railwayman, traveling salesman, steelworker, and laborer before turning to literature in 1962. His books available in English are I Served the King of England, The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, and Too Loud a Solitude.
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Edith Pargeter has also translated Bozena Nemcova's Granny: Scenes from Country life and Jan Neruda's Tales of the Little Quarter.
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- PublisherNorthwestern University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0810108577
- ISBN 13 9780810108578
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages85
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