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bohumil hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He
received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived
in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual
laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration
for his "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at that time.
He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King
of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered,
along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, one of the greatest
Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important
in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital
window never to return.
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published by TSP:
Total Fears
also by the author:
Too Loud a Solitude
I Served the
King of England
The Little Town Where
Time Stood Still
In-House Weddings
Dancing Lessons for
the Advanced in Age
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