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Why I write? : and other early prose pieces / Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czech by David Short ; [illustrations Jiří Grus].
Van Pelt Library PG5039.18.R2 A2 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914-1997, author.
- Series:
- Modern Czech classics
- Modern Czech Classics
- Standardized Title:
- Prose works. Selections. English
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914-1997.
- Short stories, Czech.
- Czechoslovakia--Fiction.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Czech fiction--20th century.
- Czech fiction.
- Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914-1997--Translations into English.
- Hrabal, Bohumil.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 519 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- First English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Prague : Karolinum Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- This collection of the earliest prose captures, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing." (Arnault Maréchal). Taken from the period when Bohumil Hrabal shifted his focus from poetry to prose, these stories - many written in school notebooks, typed and read aloud to friends, or published in samizdat - often showcase experiments in style that would define his later works; others intriguingly utilize forms the author would never pursue again. 'Why I Write?' offers to see why the prose master was "fundamentally a lyrical poet." -- Josef ̓Škvorecký.
- Contents:
- Why I write?
- Those rapturous riflemen
- Cain
- Trapezium number two
- The house that refreshed itself in a flash
- The feat of Sts Philip and James
- Scribes and pharisees
- No escape
- The glorious legend of Wantoch
- The sufferings of Old Werther
- Protocol
- A schizophrenic gospel
- A January story
- A February story
- One great guy
- Atom prince
- The Gabriel explosion
- Made in Czechoslovakia
- Blitzkrieg
- Meetings by chance and design
- Line No. 23a
- One pretty nondescript station
- A Christening
- Be expecting me
- Toy shop
- Everyday chit-chat
- A woman in love
- One ordinary day.
- Notes:
- Map on endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9788024642680
- 8024642689
- OCLC:
- 1137160241
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