Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
paperback | English
Published:
6 August, 2009
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099540625 |
| ISBN10 | 0099540622 |
| Number Of Pages | 112 |
| Item Weight | 105 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 8 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
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The beauty of Hrabal's book is how he is able to make this tightly-wound object move...what Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps...the human spirit * The Times *
First-hand experience informs Hrabal's work with a wonderful detail, irascibility and charm * Los Angeles Times *
Hrabal has invented some of the most memorable characters in world literature * Los Angeles Times *
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Author's Bio
Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital window never to return.