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Rambling On
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czech writers. Hrabal's fiction blends tragedy with humor and explores the anguish of intellectuals and ordinary people alike from a slightly surreal perspective. iRambling On/i is a collection of stories set in Hrabal's Kersko that depicts the hilariously absurd atmosphere of a tiny cottage community in the heart of a forest in the middle of totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Several of these stories were rejected by the Communist censors during the 1970s; this first English translation features the original, uncensored versions.
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Prague : its gardens and parks
Meandering past flower-framed baroque statues to renaissance loggias, romantic pavilions, elegant stairways, and bubbling fountains, this volume explores Prague's gardens and parks by locality, offering novel insight into the city's different sections that will delight all educated travellers and lovers of Prague. For gardeners, descriptions of some historical gardens also include explanations of their specific spatial relations, connecting them to the larger story of European urban garden design. Complemented with a glossary of terms and an index of important figures and locations, this beautiful celebration of Prague's remarkable living botanical art, both past and present, sheds new light on the leafy corners of this adored European capital.
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Rambling on: an apprentice's guide to the gift of the gab short stories
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 Hašek, Karel Capek, 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.
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Bohumil Hrabal. a Full-Length Portrait
Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as \"one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats, and women (in roughly that order),\" Bohumil Hrabal is one of the most important, most translated, and most idiosyncratic Czech authors. In Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait, Jirí Pelán makes the case that this praise is far too narrow. A respected scholar of French and Italian literature, Pelán approaches Hrabal as a comparatist, expertly situating him within the context of European and world literature as he explores the entirety of Hrabal's oeuvre and its development over sixty years. Concise, clear, and as compulsively readable as the works of Hrabal himself, Bohumil Hrabal was universally praised by critics in its original Czech edition as one of best works of Hrabal criticism. Here it is beautifully rendered into English for the first time by David Short, a celebrated translator of Hrabal's works. Also featuring a fascinating selection of black-and-white images from Hrabal's life, Bohumil Hrabal is essential reading for anyone interested in this crucial Czech author.
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V.S. Pritchett: Teller of tales The short fiction of England's lyric poet of the repressed
Complete Collected Short Stories By V.S. Pritchett Random House, 1,220 pages, $35 One might raise an eyebrow about the repetitive, even obsessive publication by Random House of the short fiction of V. S. Pritchett. There was a \"Collected Stories\" (1956), another \"Collected Stories\" (1982), then a \"More Collected Stories\" and \"The Complete Short Stories,\" all of which preceded this \"Complete Collected Stories\"-which is not, despite its awkward name, \"complete,\" lacking as it does the pieces from Pritchett's first collection, \"The Spanish Virgin\" (1930). At least 21 other uncollected stories also are absent. Yet Pritchett deserves whatever push a publisher's pride or greed can supply. As old as the century, he has been writing extraordinarily fine stories and criticism for longer than most of us can remember and is one of those writers who, like Nabokov or Auden or Graham Greene, always shows up on lists of people who ought to have had the Nobel Prize. But if Pritchett is taken for granted, if the fact that he was knighted 15 years ago tends to make him official and assigned, the kind of writer one wouldn't read for fun, it is exactly fun, irreverence, honesty and humor that he has been offering so well and for so long. This grand and rich volume is therefore welcome because it calls attention again to one of the great achievements of short-story writing in English.
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