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Bohumil Hrabal

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

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Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life-or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime's worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory conquests (and humiliations), of scandals both private and public, of military adventures and domestic feuds, of what things were like in the days of the monarchy and how they've changed since. As the book tumbles restlessly forward, and the comic… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Henry Heim, Michael (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-59017-556-9
  • EAN: 9781590175569
  • Produktnummer: 15734832
  • Verlag: New York Review Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 158 KB

Über den Autor


Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. More interested in poetry and the life of the brewery managed by his stepfather than in his studies, Hrabal eventually enrolled in the law faculty at Charles University in Prague. The Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939 led to the closing of the universities and Hrabal did not complete his degree until 1946. Not inclined to practice law and unable to find a publisher for his poetry once the Communist Party came to power in 1948, Hrabal held a long series of odd jobs, including notary's clerk, warehouseman, railroad worker, insurance agent, traveling salesman, foreman in a foundry, wastepaper recycling center worker, and stagehand. In 1962 he became a full-time writer, but due to government restrictions was obliged to publish much of his work in underground editions or abroad. The motion-picture adaptation of his novella Closely Watched Trains brought Hrabal international recognition, including the 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, but only in 1976 was he rehabilitated by the government and permitted to publish select works. By the time of his death-he fell from a fifth-floor window in a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the birds-Hrabal was one of the world's most famous Czech writers and the author of nearly fifty books. Among his other works available in English translation are The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, I Served the King of England, and Too Loud a Solitude. Adam Thirlwell is the author of two novels, Politics and The Escape; and an essay on novels, The Delighted States. He lives in London. Michael Henry Heim is a professor of Slavic languages at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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