Bohumil Hrabal: 14 books

Book cover of Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

Wonderful stories of Communist Prague by “the masterly Bohumil Hrabal” (The New Yorker) 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...
Book cover of Yo serví al rey de Inglaterra
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2014

En la década de 1930, en Praga, un joven aprendiz de camarero, Jan, logra su primer trabajo dispuesto a convertirse en dueño de un hotel e ingresar en el selecto club de los millonarios. Listo y ambicioso, todo lo supeditará a alcanzar el éxito y el reconocimiento social. Pero el punto de vista...
Book cover of Tierno bárbaro
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Bohumil Hrabal escribió Tierno bárbaro en 1973, en unos años en que su obra estaba prohibida por el régimen político instalado en el poder tras la invasión de Checoslovaquia por parte del ejército soviético que puso fin a la Primavera de Praga. Hrabal vive solo en su casa en el bosque de Kersko,...
Book cover of The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

The Little Town Where Time Stood Still contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer.” “Cutting It Short” is set before World War II in a small country town, and it relates the scandalizing escapades...
Book cover of Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012

Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story...
Book cover of Total Fears

Total Fears

Selected Letters to Dubenka

by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014

In these letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) chronicles the momentous events of those years as seen, more often than not, from the windows of his favorite pubs. In his palavering, stream-of-conscious style that has marked him as...
Book cover of I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007

In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia. First...
Book cover of Mi gato Autícko
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 13, 2016

En su casa de Kersko, cerca de Praga, Hrabal se recluye para escribir y cuidar de sus gatos, entre los cuales su favorito es Autícko. Los gatos marcan el ritmo cotidiano con sus juegos, su deseo de retozar, el horario de sus comidas. Y Hrabal se entrega a ellos con una ternura excepcional. Pero cuando...
Book cover of Clases de baile para mayores
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 16, 2015

El anciano libertino protagonista de esta novela cuenta la historia de su vida a una bella señorita. Así nos enteramos de sus conquistas amorosas, escándalos, tanto privados como públicos, aventuras militares y de cómo era la vida en los días del Imperio austrohúngaro. Hrabal, uno de los grandes...
Book cover of La pequeña ciudad donde el tiempo se detuvo
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Esta es una pequeña ciudad que vive alrededor de una fábrica de cerveza. El padre del narrador es el encargado y su tío Pepin uno de los trabajadores. En esa ciudad donde apenas nada ocurre, pasan los conquistadores nazis y llegan los «liberadores» tanques soviéticos, hasta que el régimen comunista...
Book cover of Too Loud a Solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 1992

A fable about the power of books and knowledge, “finely balanced between pathos and comedy,” from one of Czechoslovakia’s most popular authors (Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book Haňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books...
Book cover of Trenes rigurosamente vigilados
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2017

Una divertida y entrañable historia sobre la resistencia frente al invasor alemán durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial protagonizada por los empleados de la estación de tren de un pequeño pueblo checoslovaco cerca de la frontera con Alemania. El descubrimiento del amor y del deseo están presentes...
Book cover of Harlequin's Millions
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014

By the writer Milan Kundera called Czechoslovakia's greatest contemporary writer comes a novel (now in English for the first time) peopled with eccentric, unforgettable inhabitants of a home for the elderly who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. Written with a keen eye for the...
Book cover of Una soledad demasiado ruidosa
by Bohumil Hrabal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2013

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