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Bohumil Hrabal Total Fears (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Total Fears : Selected Letters to Dubenka
- Publication Name
- Total Fears
- Title
- Total Fears
- Subtitle
- Selected Letters to Dubenka
- Translator
- James Naughton
- Contributor
- James Naughton (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 8090217192
- EAN
- 9788090217195
- ISBN
- 9788090217195
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press
- Genre
- History, Literary Collections
- Release Year
- 1990
- Release Date
- 01/01/1990
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CZ
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 7.9in
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Topic
- European / Eastern (See Also Russian & Former Soviet Union), Europe / Eastern, Letters, Diaries & Journals
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 204 Pages
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In these letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) 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 one of the major writers and innovators of postwar European literature, Hrabal gives a humorous and at times moving account of life in Prague under Nazi occupation, Communism, and the brief euphoria following the revolution of 1989 when anything seemed possible, even pink tanks. Interspersed are fragmented memories of trips taken to Britain as he attempted to track down every location mentioned in Eliot's "The Waste Land" and the United States, where he ends up in one of Dylan Thomas's haunts comparing the waitresses to ones he knew in Prague. The result is a masterful blend of personal history and fee association rendered in a prose as powerful as it is poetic..
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press
ISBN-10
8090217192
ISBN-13
9788090217195
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1122004
Product Key Features
Book Title
Total Fears : Selected Letters to Dubenka
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / Eastern (See Also Russian & Former Soviet Union), Europe / Eastern, Letters, Diaries & Journals
Publication Year
1998
Genre
History, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
204 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Length
7.9in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pg5039.18.R2d67213
Reviews
In Total Fears, Hrabal glancingly commends Freud's writing about comedy and jokes, and calls it "typically Central European, and especially typical of Prague." [...] This is blocked humour about blocked people. Hrabal, in Freud's terms, is a great humorist. London Review of Books, Bohumil Hrabal at his most ecstatic, in the sense of almost religious fervor, full of the "mystic vision" of Eastern European writers. They are his dark night of the soul, his "Wasteland." Written from 1989 to 1992 (when Hrabal was 75), they are the sum of his fear and his shame. Los Angeles Times, Bohumil Hrabal at his most ecstatic, in the sense of almost religious fervor, full of the "mystic vision" of Eastern European writers. They are his dark night of the soul, his "Wasteland." Written from 1989 to 1992 (when Hrabal was 75), they are the sum of his fear and his shame., Bohumil Hrabal at his most ecstatic, in the sense of almost religious fervor, full of the "mystic vision" of Eastern European writers. They are his dark night of the soul, his "Wasteland." Written from 1989 to 1992 (when Hrabal was 75), they are the sum of his fear and his shame.- Los Angeles Times, In Total Fears, Hrabal glancingly commends Freud's writing about comedy and jokes, and calls it "typically Central European, and especially typical of Prague." [...] This is blocked humour about blocked people. Hrabal, in Freud's terms, is a great humorist.- London Review of Books, In Total Fears, Hrabal glancingly commends Freud's writing about comedy and jokes, and calls it "typically Central European, and especially typical of Prague." [...] This is blocked humour about blocked people. Hrabal, in Freud's terms, is a great humorist.-- London Review of Books, Bohumil Hrabal at his most ecstatic, in the sense of almost religious fervor, full of the "mystic vision" of Eastern European writers. They are his dark night of the soul, his "Wasteland." Written from 1989 to 1992 (when Hrabal was 75), they are the sum of his fear and his shame.-- Los Angeles Times, The publication of this book marks a major event ... As an addition to English Hrabalia, Total Fears is invaluable, and unlikely to be matched for some time.- The Prague Post, Bohumil Hrabal at his most ecstatic, in the sense of almost religious fervor, full of the "mystic vision" of Eastern European writers. They are his dark night of the soul, his "Wasteland." Written from 1989 to 1992 (when Hrabal was 75), they are the sum of his fear and his shame. - Los Angeles Times, The publication of this book marks a major event ... As an addition to English Hrabalia, Total Fears is invaluable, and unlikely to be matched for some time. The Prague Post, In Total Fears, Hrabal glancingly commends Freud's writing about comedy and jokes, and calls it "typically Central European, and especially typical of Prague." [...] This is blocked humour about blocked people. Hrabal, in Freud's terms, is a great humorist. - London Review of Books, The publication of this book marks a major event ... As an addition to English Hrabalia, Total Fears is invaluable, and unlikely to be matched for some time. - The Prague Post, In Total Fears, Hrabal glancingly commends Freud's writing about comedy and jokes, and calls it "typically Central European, and especially typical of Prague." [...] This is blocked humour about blocked people. Hrabal, in Freud's terms, is a great humorist., The publication of this book marks a major event ... As an addition to English Hrabalia, Total Fears is invaluable, and unlikely to be matched for some time., The publication of this book marks a major event ... As an addition to English Hrabalia, Total Fears is invaluable, and unlikely to be matched for some time.-- The Prague Post
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
9922-008316
Dewey Decimal
891.8/6654
Dewey Edition
21
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