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Bohumil Hrabal ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈboɦumɪl ˈɦrabal]; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century. [1] Early life.
Bohumil Hrabal was a Czech author of comic, nearly surreal tales about poor workers, eccentrics, failures, and nonconformists. In his youth Hrabal was influenced by a highly talkative uncle who arrived for a two-week visit and stayed 40 years.
Bohumil Hrabal, rozený Bohumil František Kilian (28. března 1914 Židenice – 3. února 1997 Praha) byl český prozaik, jeden z nejvýznamnějších a nejosobitějších českých spisovatelů druhé poloviny 20. století.
Dec 6, 2019 · Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) was born in Moravia and started writing poems under the influence of French surrealism. In the early 1950s, he began to experiment with a stream-of-consciousness style, and eventually wrote such classics as Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel), The Death of Mr ...
Feb 3, 1997 · Bohumil Hrabal (Author of Too Loud a Solitude) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of Bohumil Hrabal's books. Join Goodreads. Bohumil Hrabal’s Followers (1,195) Born. in Brno, Czech Republic. March 28, 1914. Died. February 03, 1997. Genre. Fiction. Influences.
Jun 30, 2015 · Bohumil Hrabal: Of Beer, Whores, and Samizdat. On the Greatest Czech Writer of the Past Century. By Joshua Cohen. June 30, 2015. Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) was born in Brno, Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Nov 19, 2019 · The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal. How the Czech master exposed the animal within us. By Becca Rothfeld. November 19, 2019. This fall brings two new translations of Bohumil Hrabal’s work,...
Nov 26, 2019 · Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) was born in Moravia and started writing poems under the influence of French surrealism. In the early 1950s, he began to experiment with a stream-of-consciousness style, and eventually wrote such classics as Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel), The Death of Mr ...
Described as “one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century," Bohumil Hrabal ranks among the most important and widely translated Czech authors....
Mar 27, 2014 · Born 100 years ago in Brno on March 28, Bohumil Hrabal was one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century. Hrabal wrote in colloquial Czech and is famous for his acute observations...
