Rambling on : an apprentice's guide to gift of the gab : short stories / Bohumil Hrabal ; English translation by David Short ; afterword by Václav Kadlec ; illustrations by Jií Grus.

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Hrabal, Bohumil [author.]

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9788024625812
8024625814
8024623161
9788024623160

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rambling on : an apprentice's guide to gift of the gab : short stories.DDC classification:

891.86354 23

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PG5038.S527 .H733 2014eb

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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.

Summary: 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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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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