| Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka Contributor(s): Hrabal, Bohumil (Author), Naughton, James (Translator) |
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ISBN: 8090217192 ISBN-13: 9788090217195 Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1998 Annotation: Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was one of the most important stylists in post-war European literature. He is internationally renowned for such works as I Served the King of England, Too Loud a Solitude, and Closely Watched Trains, on which Jiri's Menzel's Oscar-winning film was based. At the beginning of 1989, after a long literary silence, Hrabal began to write short, single texts, which he considered his "lyrical reportage." Giving these texts the form of letters to the muse of his later years, Hrabal chronicles the momentous events leading up to and following the velvet revolution in the palavering, stream of consciousness style for which he became famous. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Collections | Letters - Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99228316 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.55" W x 7.92" (0.60 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
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| Publisher Description: In these letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) chronicles the momentous events of those years as seen, more often than not, from the windows of his favorite pubs. In his palavering, stream-of-conscious style that has marked him as one of the major writers and innovators of postwar European literature, Hrabal gives a humorous and at times moving account of life in Prague under Nazi occupation, Communism, and the brief euphoria following the revolution of 1989 when anything seemed possible, even pink tanks. Interspersed are fragmented memories of trips taken to Britain - as he attempted to track down every location mentioned in Eliot's "The Waste Land" - and the United States, where he ends up in one of Dylan Thomas's haunts comparing the waitresses to ones he knew in Prague. The result is a masterful blend of personal history and fee association rendered in a prose as powerful as it is poetic.. |