Dancing Lessons For The Advanced (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by New York Review Books, New York, 2011
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- Title
- Dancing Lessons For The Advanced (Paperback)
- Author
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Publisher
- New York Review Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1590173775
- ISBN 13
- 9781590173770
Hrabal, one of the great Czech writers of the twentieth century, as well as an inveterate haunter of Prague's pubs and football stadiums, developed a unique method which he termed "palavering," whereby characters gab and soliloquize with abandon. Part drunken boast, part soul-rending confession, part metaphysical poem on the nature of love and time, this astonishing novel (which unfolds in a single monumental sentence) shows why he has earned the admiration of such writers as Milan Kundera, John Banville, and Louise Erdrich.
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About the Author
Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. More interested in poetry and the life of the brewery managed by his stepfather than in his studies, Hrabal eventually enrolled in the law faculty at Charles University in Prague. The Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939 led to the closing of the universities and Hrabal did not complete his degree until 1946. Not inclined to practice law and unable to find a publisher for his poetry once the Communist Party came to power in 1948, Hrabal held a long series of odd jobs, including notary's clerk, warehouseman, railroad worker, insurance agent, traveling salesman, foreman in a foundry, wastepaper recycling center worker, and stagehand. In 1962 he became a full-time writer, but due to government restrictions was obliged to publish much of his work in underground editions or abroad. The motion-picture adaptation of his novella Closely Watched Trains brought Hrabal international recognition, including the 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, but only in 1976 was he "rehabilitated" by the government and permitted to publish select works. By the time of his death--he fell from a fifth-floor window in a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the birds--Hrabal was one of the world's most famous Czech writers and the author of nearly fifty books. Among his other works available in English translation are The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, I Served the King of England, and Too Loud a Solitude.
Adam Thirlwell is the author of two novels, Politics and The Escape; and an essay on novels, The Delighted States. He lives in London.
Michael Henry Heim is a professor of Slavic languages at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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