Rambling On: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab - Couverture souple

Hrabal, Bohumil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8024632861 ISBN 13 : 9788024632865

Editeur : Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic, 2016

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 Hasek, 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and studied law. By his death, he was ranked among the greatest Czech writers of the twentieth century. His novel Closely Watched Trains was turned into an Academy Award-winning film.

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8024632861
• ISBN 13: 9788024632865
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible