Mr. Kafka and other tales from the time of the cult
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Author
Contributors
Wilson, Paul R. 1941- translator.
Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
ix, 142 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Hrabel, B
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Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2015.
Language
English
UPC
40025457025
Notes
General Note
Translated from the Czech.
General Note
"Originally published in 1965 as Inzerát na dům, ve kterém už nechci bydlet" -- Title page verso.
Description
"Never before published in English, the stories in Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult were written mostly in the 1950s and present the Czech master Bohumil Hrabal at the height of his powers. The stories capture a time when Czech Stalinists were turning society upside down, inflicting their social and political experiments on mostly unwilling subjects. These stories are set variously in the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague; on the raucous and dangerous factory floor of the famous Poldi steelworks where Hrabal himself once worked; in a cacophonous open-air dance hall where classical and popular music come to blows; at the basement studio where a crazed artist attempts to fashion a national icon; on the scaffolding around a decommissioned church. Hrabal captures men and women trapped in an eerily beautiful nightmare, longing for a world where "humor and metaphysical escape can reign supreme.' " --,Provided by publisher.
Language
Translated from the Czech.
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