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 Hasek, Karel ??apek, 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
ISBN-13
9788024632865
eBay Product ID (ePID)
226365025
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rambling On: an Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab
Author
Bohumil Hrabal
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories, Books
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
190mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
166g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Bohumil Hrabal
Series Title
Modern Czech Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture
Czechia
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