Bohumil Hrabal
James Wood: The life, times, letters and politics of Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal, 4 January 2001
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim.
Harvill, 103 pp., £6.99, May 1998,1 86046 215 4 Show More
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim.
Harvill, 103 pp., £6.99, May 1998,
Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim.
Abacus, 112 pp., £6.99, May 1997,0 349 10262 7 Show More
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim.
Abacus, 112 pp., £6.99, May 1997,
I Served the King of England
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson.
Picador, 256 pp., £6.99, May 1990,0 330 30876 9 Show More
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson.
Picador, 256 pp., £6.99, May 1990,
Closely Observed Trains
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Edith Partiger.
Abacus, 128 pp., £5.99, May 1990,0 349 10125 6 Show More
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Edith Partiger.
Abacus, 128 pp., £5.99, May 1990,
Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by James Naughton.
Twisted Spoon Press, 203 pp., $13.50, June 1998,80 902171 9 2 Show More
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by James Naughton.
Twisted Spoon Press, 203 pp., $13.50, June 1998,
“... What is funny and forlorn, where is the comic pathos, in the following sentence? ‘A fortune-teller once read my cards and said that if it wasn’t for a tiny black cloud hanging over me I could do great things and not only for my country but for all mankind.’ Instantly, a person opens before us like a quick wound: probably a man (that slight vibration of a swagger), grandiose in aspiration but glued to a petty destiny, eccentric and possibly mad, a talker, rowdy with anecdote ... ”
