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Mr Kafka by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Fiction
Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landlady's blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his l ...Show more
Mr. Kafka and other tales from the time of the cult by Paul (TRN) Bohumil; Wilson Hrabal
Category: Classics
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Classic Fiction
"The Little Town Where Time Stood Still" contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as Czechoslovakia s greatest writer. Cutting It Short is set before World War II in a small country town, and it relates the scandalizing escapades of Mary ka, the ...Show more
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Bohumil Hrabal; James Naughton (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to smash when he's angry, Bohumil Hrabal creates a range of enchanting and memorable characters - confirming hi ...Show more
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Fiction
A brilliant Kafka-esque novel about one man's resistance to a totalitarian regime (Czechoslovakia).
Too Loud a Solitude by HRABAL BOHUMIL
Category: Fiction
Hanta has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening he resues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Hanta may be an idiot, as his boss calls him, but he is an idiot with a difference - the ability to quote the Talmud, Hegel, and La ...Show more
Why I Write? - The Early Prose from 1945 To 1952 by Bohumil Hrabal
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Modern Czech Classics Ser.
"Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity." --New Yorker "A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership." --Kirkus Reviews This collection of the earliest prose by one ...Show more