Rambling On: An Apprentice’s Guide to the Gift of the Gab (Modern Czech Classics) - Hardcover

Hrabal, Bohumil

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9788024623160: Rambling On: An Apprentice’s Guide to the Gift of the Gab (Modern Czech Classics)
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ISBN 10: 8024623161 ISBN 13: 9788024623160
Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2014

Synopsis

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 Čapek, 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.

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David Short is an acclaimed translator of numerous books from Czech and Slovak to English.

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Publisher
Karolinum Press, Charles University
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8024623161
ISBN 13 
9788024623160
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
352
Rating
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