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Ich habe den englischen König bedient

Der große tschechische Schriftsteller Bohumil Hrabal führte jene burleske Literatur fort, die den...

Die Romane

Wer ich bin: Antwort:'Ich hatte immer den Vorteil, keine echte Bildung und kein echtes Wissen zu ...

Little Town Where Time Stood Still

'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?...

Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a...

Little Town Where Time Stood Still

From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her g...

Book of Prague

An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much...

All My Cats

'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bou...

All My Cats

In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech ...

The Gentle Barbarian

Mr Kafka

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered marke...

Why I Write?

"e;Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity."e; -New Yorker "e;A colle...

Closely Watched Trains

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of ...