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Book Description
This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and embezzlers, barmaids and balalaikas all play their part in the bawdy reminiscences of Hrabal's cobbler as he charms an aContinue
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popmatters published on Wed, 14 Sep 2011
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Bohumil Hrabal
What is funny and forlorn, where is the comic pathos, in the following sentence? ‘A fortune-teller once read my cards and said that if it wasn’t for a tiny black cloud hanging over me I could do great things and not only for my country but for all ma ... (read full critics)
lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- eBook 112 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1446477495
- ISBN-13: 9781446477496
- Publisher: Random House
- Pub date: Jun 08, 2011
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Those Wacky Europeans Are at It Again with 'Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age'
Man, what is it about Europeans and literature? Okay, I know that’s a broad statement, but the old saw about Europeans being more interested in ideas and Americans being more interested in storytelling—well, there’s some truth to that. Quite a lot of ... (read full critics)