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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 absurd and sprinkled with dialogue that captures the poignancy of the everyday, this novel allows us into the mind of an elderly woman coming to terms with the passing of time.
Praise for Too Loud a Solitude:
"Short, sharp and eccentric. Sophisticated, thought-provoking and pithy." --Spectator
"Unmissable, combines extremes of comedy and seriousness, plus pathos, slapstick, sex and violence all stirred into one delicious brew." --The Guardian
"In imaginative riches and sheer exhilaration it offers more than most books twice its size. At once tender and scatological, playful and sombre, moving and irresistibly funny." --The Independent on Sunday
Praise for I Served the King of England:
"A joyful, picaresque story, which begins with Baron Munchausen-like adventures and ends in tears and solitude." -- James Wood, The London Review of Books
"A comic novel of great inventiveness ... charming, wise, and sad--and an unexpectedly good laugh." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"An extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel." --The New York Times
"Dancing Lessons unfurls as a single, sometimes maddening sentence. The gambit works. Something about that slab of wordage carries the eye forward, promising an intensity simply unattainable by your regularly punctuated novel." --Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review
- Sales Rank: #659154 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-05-06
- Released on: 2014-05-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"A surreal and loquacious tale. . . . Billed as "a fairy tale," the novel, at times, fancifully confounds expectations. . . and Hrabal's long, lyrical sentences (each chapter consists of a single paragraph) are not only eloquently constructed, but also as spirited as the scenes they illustrate." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[A] uniquely compelling blend of parable, fantasy, social realism and testament to the power of storytelling. . . . the voice of the narrator is spellbinding, even as the reader becomes less sure of her credibility. . . . An enchanting novel, full of life, about the end of life." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"Hrabal’s images and language, his anecdotes and precise observations create an exceptionally sensuous reverie about the passage of time. . . Hrabal elicits from his adult reader not just sweet Proustian melancholy but also a better, deeper appreciation of the bright but evanescent sunshine outside." -- Washington Post
"Knecht has guided this quiet book into an engaging, heartfelt experience without letting it drop into mawkish emofiction." -- Shelf Awareness
"You get to laze around in beautiful, page-long sentences deep with observation and memory. The rhythm and lyricism are powerful and subtle. I can’t believe I’m writing this. It sounds like a book I would detest. And yet it stays perched at the top of my longlist." -- BTBA Judge George Carroll
"The song ['Harlequin’s Millions'] infuses the book, a sad soundtrack to a novel that manages to be vibrant and wistful. Thanks to Stacey Knecht’s expert translation, one of the 20th century’s most inventive literary talents feels very much alive." — Malcolm Forbes, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Czechoslovakia's greatest living writer." --Milan Kundera
"Hrabal, to my mind, is one of the greatest living European prose writers." --Philip Roth, 1990
"There are pages of queer magic unlike anything else currently being done with words." --The Guardian
"Hrabal is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and hushed tenderness of detail." --Julian Barnes
"What Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps ... the human spirit." --The Times
"“Bohumil Hrabal, for all reductive purposes, is the Czech Proust: meaning, he’s of the same stirring brilliance, but also meaning that Proust is the French Hrabal. . . Few possess a voice as bold as any one of the many Hrabal has served up. . . What is not okay is to let him slip away from a mainstream eye, and stay reserved for readers looking to 'challenge' themselves." -- Tweed's Magazine of Literature and Art
About the Author
Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) worked as a railway dispatcher during the Nazi occupation of then-Czechoslovakia, a traveling salesman, a steelworker, a recycling mill worker, and a stagehand. His novels, which include Too Loud a Solitude, Closely Watched Trains, and I Served the King of England, were censored under the Communist regime and have since been translated into nearly thirty languages. He fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons. The author lives in Czech Republic.
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By Akos Szilvasi
Reading Hrabal in English is a new experience.
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"The façade of the castle resembled the faces of [the] elderly pensioners...crumbling plaster ravaged by time."
By Mary Whipple
Author Bohumil Hrabal, a captivating story-teller whom many consider the Czech Republic's best novelist, brings to life Nymburk, the real town in which he lived for many years. Here Hrabal does not dwell on the horrors of war and its aftermath, on sudden changes of fortune, on evil plots, or, in the case of this novel, on the misery of old age and the approach of death, preferring instead to see the world with a more optimistic attitude, and with a sense of humor even in the midst of sadness. The result is a novel of great universality and wit, told with a confidence that comes from total familiarity with his setting and subject matter and with a brio that engages the reader from the opening page.
The castle in this novel, once the home of Count Spork, just outside "the little town where time stood still," is now a retirement home, residence of elderly pensioners given much freedom to lead comfortable lives. "Rediffusion boxes" playing Riccardo Drigo's Serenade from "Harlequin's Millions" are on the walls both inside and outside the castle, and everyone who hears this tune is "entranced" by its "melancholy memory of old times." The unnamed speaker, her husband, and his older brother have come to the castle as residents late in life, after losing their brewery when the communists took over in the aftermath of World War II. The speaker, for thirty years an independent and beautiful local actress, is now elderly, toothless, and poor, but that changed condition barely fazes her. Still independent in spirit, she embraces her new surroundings, explores them with enthusiasm, and enjoys hearing the stories of other residents at the castle.
Outwardly plotless, the novel begins when the speaker first arrives at the castle. When she goes exploring, she discovers that behind a wire fence, which she ignores, is the statue of a naked young woman glorifying the month of May, one of twelve such statues representing the seasons and months of the year. Eventually, she discovers that "what connected these statues had some deeper meaning, that in fact...all these statues represented the entire human race, in all its phases, and together they formed what we call nature: spring, summer, fall, winter...I could see that the sandstone statues formed a kind of novel, the tale of someone who had been waiting here for me..." Hrabal's novel is the revelation of her discovery.
Hrabal is an honest writer describing real life, a writer without pretensions whose primary interest is in engaging the reader in a "discussion" about his characters and their lives. It is through this "discussion" that the reader, seemingly by accident, comes to understand Hrabal's much larger ideas and themes about the continuity of life. The reader's emotional response to the main character interweaves with factual information, making the novel both a joy to read and a poignant commentary on the passage of time. Ultimately, the characters are asking not "What is death?" but "What is life?" The dramatic, moving, and ironic conclusion, in which the speaker and the reader come to new realizations, cements the author's themes and leaves the reader with new understanding and hope for the future, even as the days wind down.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A tribute to Nymburk, the town where Hrabal grew up.
By TonyMess
Before we start this review let’s go straight to the font of all knowledge, Wikipedia. “Bohumil Hrabal (28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, regarded by many Czechs as one of the best writers of the 20th century.” There is then a reference to James Wood’s article in the “London Review of Books, Vol 23 No.1, 2001). I think that article contains a little more depth to the greatness of Hrabal’s work. You can read it here if you’re interested http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n01/james-wood/bohumil-hrabal
“Harlequin’s Millions” is the latest release from USA not-for-profit publisher Archipelago Books and as one of his last novels, it is Hrabal’s tribute to Nymburk, the town where he grew up. We are in the former castle of Count Spork, a magnificent chalet that is adorned with frescoes, statues on the lawns, rusting guttering, a sound system that plays Harlequin’s Millions constantly (a serenade) and a clock that has permanently stopped at 7:25 (apparently the most popular time for people to die). This is no grand castle any longer, it is now a nursing home…
because an old person really has no place to go, and when they do go anywhere, it’s back to the memories, to the heart of the life that was once as much of a reality as…as what?
For my full review go to http://messybooker.blogspot.com.au/
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