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Lädt ... Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cultvon Bohumil Hrabal
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Cool writing but there was way too much metaphorical stuff that I didn’t get. Maybe the book deserved five stars and it’s me that only deserves three stars? ( ) Beautiful blueberry nights fill my liver with morning and the nozzle of my heart spews forth an amalgam of blood. This collection was supposed to stew. It was the subject of a group read and I had planned to read a piece every 2-3 days. Alas I was at the Walgreen's clinic and hours drifted past. The titular piece is an absurdist litany, a Fellini film shot in Prague under the drunken eyes of State Security. The subsequent pieces all contain demolition and smelting. Literally this could be construed as a paean to the factory, but the materials all appear to be in flux. Everything is being torn down, just as exaggerated production figures are broadcast over the radio like some hit parade. Stalin's shadow has slinked into history and quickly his statues are smashed with sledgehammers and dismembered with acetylene torches. Workers proclaim their constitutional rights to strike as reluctant administrators plan to have them arrested. Theft and prostitution become attractive in the worker's paradise. Despite such socialist realism trappings, the themes are universal, the angst which is afforded to everyone, the despair we inherit in the womb. This is an amazing assemblage, one made slick with Pilsner and laughter. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"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' " -- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.8Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian)Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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