Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult

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Product Details

Price
$14.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
Pages
160
Dimensions
5.1 X 7.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811224802
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About the Author

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Moravia. He is the author of such classics as Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy-Award winning film by Jiri Menzel), The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, I Served the King of England, and Too Loud a Solitude.
Paul Wilson lives in Canada and has translated works by Vaclav Haval, Bohumil Hrabal, Ivan Kilma, and Josef Skvorecky.

Reviews

One of the most authentic incarnations of magical Prague, an incredible union of earthy humor and baroque imagination.--Milan Kundera
Hrabal's magical stories are comic and human--they are really desires embodied. . . . They inhabit a utopian province, the realm of laughter and tears.--James Wood
The essence of Hrabal's fiction is to draw beauty from what isn't, to find hope where we're not likely to look . . . to show that we are all of us 'magnificent.'--Meghan Forbes
An often powerful and occasionally unnerving collection of stories from a half-century ago [...] the timelessness of the best of these stories attests to a human spirit undimmed by the darkest of circumstances.