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

[ish mailian]

His imagery is astounding,  strange and absurd and beautiful.

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
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>> Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult
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>> Fiction by Bohumil Hrabal
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>> 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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