Bohumil Hrabal (new translation) The Long Sentence....

[Mark Kohut]

Our critic nemesis James Wood LOVES this guy and not Pynchon, we know,
and even mentioned Hrabal as a non-realist he thinks is great as he
countered the steady criticism that he favors 'realism' uber alles.

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 7:27 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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