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Bohumil HrabalBohumil Hrabal (March 28 1914, Brno - February 3 1997, Prague, suicide) was a famous Czech writer. Life and work Born in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia, Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on. He worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing then. His best known novel was Closely Watched Trains (1965) (Ostře sledovan vlaky), which was made into a film by Czech director Jiří Menzel. Several of his works were not published in Czechoslovakia due to objections of the authorities, including The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Městečko, kde se zastavil čas) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglickho krle). He died when he fell from a fifth floor hospital where he was apparently trying to feed pigeons. It was noted that Hrabal lived on the fifth floor of his apartment building and that suicides by leaping from a fifth-floor window figured in more than one of his books. He wrote with an expressive, highly visual style, often using long run-on sentences; in fact his work Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) (Tanečn hodiny pro starš a pokročil) is just one long sentence. Many of Hrabal's characters are portrayed as "wise fools" - simpletons with occasional or inadvertent profound thoughts - who are also given to coarse humour, lewdness, and a determination to survive and enjoy oneself despite harsh circumstances. Political quandaries and their concomitant moral ambiguities are also a recurrent theme. Along with Jaroslav Haek and Karel Čapek - who like him were imaginative and very funny satirists - he is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century. His works have been translated into 27 languages. Quotations - It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls. -- Bohumil Hrabal in Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
- Bohumil Hrabal embodies as no other the fascinating Prague. He couples people's humor to baroque imagination. -- Milan Kundera.
Selected bibliography In English - Closely Watched Trains, translated by Edith Pargeter with a foreword by Josef kvoreck Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1995
- Cutting It Short; The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, London: Abacus, 1993
- Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995
- The Death of Mr Baltisberger, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975
- Closely Observed Trains: A Film by Jiř Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal, London: Lorrimer Publishing Ltd, 1971
- Closely Watched Trains: A Film, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
- I Served the King of England, translated by Paul Wilson New York: Vintage International, 1990
- Too Loud a Solitude, translated by Michael Henry Heim San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990
- Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka, translated by James Naughton Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998
In Czech (first editions) - Ztracen ulička, Nymburk: Hrdek 1948
- Perlička na dne, Prague: CS 1963.
- Pbitel, Prague: MF 1964.
- Tanečn hodiny pro star a pokročil, Prague: CS 1964.
- Ostře sledovan vlaky, Prague: CS 1965.
- Inzert na dům, ve kterm u nechci bydlet. Prague: MF 1965.
- Morytty a legendy, Prague: CS 1968.
- Domc koly, vahy a rozhovory. Prague: MF 1970.
- Poupata, Prague: MF 1970, conficated and burnt by communist regime
- Postřiiny, Prague: Petlice 1974 (Anti-communist secret publishing house)
- Obsluhoval jsem anglickho krle, Prague: Petlice 1971 (Anti-communist secret publishing house)
- Městečko, kde se zastavil čas, Prague: Petlice 1974 (Anti-communist secret publishing house); Exile Edition: Comenius, Innsbruck, 1978.
- Něn barbar, Prague: Petlice 1974 (Anti-communist secret publishing house); Exile edition: Index, Koeln, 1981.
- Přli hlučn samota, Prague: Ceska expedice 1977 (Anti-communist secret publishing house); Exile edition: Index, Koeln, 1980.
- Slavnosti sněenek, Prague: CS 1978.
- Krasosmutněn, Prague: CS 1979.
- Harleknovy miliny, Prague: CS 1981.
- Kluby poezie, Prague: MF 1981.
- Domc koly z pilnosti, Prague: MF 1982.
- ivot bez smokingu, Prague: CS 1986.
- Svatby v dome, Prague: Prazska imaginace 1986 (Anti-communist secret publishing house); Exile edition: 68Publishers, Toronto, 1987.
- Vita nuova, Prague: Prazska imaginace 1986 (Anti-communist secret publishing house); Exile edition: 68Publishers, Toronto, 1987.
- Proluky, Prague: Petlice 1986 (Anti-communist secret publishing house) Exile edition: 68Publishers, Toronto, 1986.
- Kličky na kapesnku, Prague: Prazska imaginace 1987 (Anti-communist secret publishing house)
- Listopadov uragn, Prague: Tvorba 1990.
- Ponorn řčky, Prague: Prazska imaginace 1991.
- Růov kavalr, Prague: Prazska imaginace 1991.
- Aurora na mělčině, Prague: Prazska imaginace 1992.
- Večernčky pro Cassia, Prask imaginace, Prague 1993.
- Atomov maina značky Perkeo sc, Prace, 1991
- Bambino di Praga; Barvotisky; Krsn Poldi Praha: Československ spisovatel, 1990
- Bsněn Praha: Prask imaginace, 1991
- Bibliografie dodatky rejstřky Praha: Prask imaginace, 1997
- Buďte tak hodn, vythnete rolety: vbor z milostn korespondence Praha: Triton, 1999
- Chcete vidět Zlatou Prahu?: vbor z povdek Praha: Mlad fronta, 1989
- J si vzpomnm jen a jen na slunecn dny Nymburk: S Klos, 1998
Complete works edition in 19 volumes was published in 90ties by Prazska imaginace. External links Hrabal, Bohumil Hrabal, Bohumil Hrabal, Bohumil Hrabal, Bohumil
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