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Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult

Fiction by Bohumil Hrabal

translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson

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
gaslit 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."

published October 27th, 2015

http://www.ndbooks.com/book/mr-kafka-and-other-tales-from-the-time-of-the-cult/
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