Mr Kafka

Name: Mr Kafka
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9781784871178
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English

By (author): Bohumil Hrabal

Translated by: Paul Wilson

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landladys blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his life to build, and factory men strain to catch a glimpse of a beautiful bathing murderess. In these newly discovered stories, Hrabal captures men and women in an eerily beautiful nightmare and their spirit in all its misery and splendour. See more

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Weight: 118g
Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
Publication Date: 03 Mar 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781784871178

About Bohumil Hrabal

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.