TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hrabal,Bohumil
AU  - Short,David
AU  - Kadlec,Václav
AU  - Grus,Jií
TI  - Rambling on: an apprentice's guide to gift of the gab : short stories 
T2  - Beletrie
SN  - 9788024625812
AV  - PG5038.S527 .H733 2014eb
U1  - 891.86354 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Prague, Czech Republic
PB  - Karolinum Press
KW  - Kvorecký, Josef
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Clergé
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - FICTION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Translations
N1  - 1 the st bernard inn; 2 a moonlit night; 3 mr methie; 4 a feral cow; 5 a grand piano rabbit hutch; 6 jumbo; 7 mazánek's wonder; 8 the snowdrop festival; 9 friends; 10 fining salami; 11 leli; 12 beatrice; 13 lucy and polly; 14 the feast; 15 ionic man; 16 hair like pivarn©k's; 17 the maid of honour; 18 adagio lamentoso; 19 an apprentice's guide to the gift of the gab; afterword; translator's notes; contents
N2  - Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Ha¿Łek, Karel Capek, 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. Rambling On 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 Eng
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