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Lädt ... Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp: An Interview-Novel with Questions Asked and Answers Recorded by Laszlo Szigetivon 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. This book is formed by interviews with the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal. As the interviews were all made before the "Velvet Revolution" nearly 30 years ago, the book is dated, although still giving a deep insight into the modern Czech literary scene. This edition is carefully annotated. ( ) The title in Czech of this "interview novel" is football (soccer) on a handkerchief. That has a nice alliterative flow to it in Czech. As does the title in English. Both depict the beauty of creative effort in tight corners. The work was completed in 1986, not exactly a hopeful time in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Hrabal's text is a series of interviews pivoted and tilted to allow motifs and recurring rhythms to dance and distillate. I was charmed. Hrabal is asked to situate himself in the Czech literary tradition, often as a counerpoint to Hašek's Švejk. I must admit I learned a great deal in those discussions particularly about Jan Neruda. I don't know if everyone would love this. I did, but it may be more the provenance of completists and liter-nerds like me. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made his mark on the Czech literary scene; by his death he was ranked with Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Capek, and Milan Kundera as among the nation's greatest twentieth-century writers. Known for writing about political questions with humor and vivid expressiveness, Hrabal also was given to experimentation--his early novel Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, for example, consists of a single extended sentence. Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp carried Hrabal's experimentation to the field of autobiography. On its surface a verbatim record of an oral interview conducted by Hungarian journalist László Szigeti, the book confuses and confounds with false starts, digressions, and philosophical asides. Yet despite all the games and distractions, Hrabal's personality shines through, compelling and unforgettable, making Pirouette on a Postage Stamp an unexpected treat for any lover of Czech literature. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.8635Literature 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) Czech Czech fiction 1900–1989Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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