Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: An exuberantly inventive novella from the great Czech author of I Served the King of England. - Couverture souple

Hrabal, Bohumil

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ISBN 10 : 1529986109 ISBN 13 : 9781529986105

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2026

Synopsis

This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence.

An ageing man holds court, spinning a single, unbroken stream of stories about his life – loves won and lost, jobs taken and abandoned, moments of absurdity and chance. As he talks, the line between memory and invention begins to blur.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital window never to return.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529986109
• ISBN 13: 9781529986105
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Vintage Classics; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/VCL/vintage-classics/; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie