Closely Watched Trains
Bohumil Hrabal (Author) Bohumil Hrabal was one of the most important and admired Czech writers of the 20th century. He was born and raised in Brno in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914. After working as a railway labourer, insurance agent, travelling salesman, manual labourer, paper-packer and stagehand, he published a collection of poetry that was quickly withdrawn by the communist regime. His best-known books include I Served the King of England, Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel) and Too Loud a Solitude. In 1997, he fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hosp…
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Weitere Autoren: Pargeter, Edith (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-241-29022-4
- EAN: 9780241290224
- Produktnummer: 21816707
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H19.5 cm x B13.2 cm x D0.5 cm 80 g
- Gewicht: 80
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Bohumil Hrabal (Author) Bohumil Hrabal was one of the most important and admired Czech writers of the twentieth century. He was born and raised in Brno in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914. After working as a railway labourer, insurance agent, travelling salesman, manual labourer, paper-packer and stagehand, he published a collection of poetry that was quickly withdrawn by the communist regime. His best-known books include I Served the King of England, Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel) and Too Loud a Solitude. In 1997, he fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.
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