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Rambling On (paperback)
An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab
Hrabal Bohumil
Karolinum 2018
published: February 2018
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ISBN 9788024638744 (PDF)
ISBN 9788024633732 (epub)
ISBN 9788024633749 (mobi)
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Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czech writers. Hrabal's fiction blends tragedy with humor and explores the anguish of intellectuals and ordinary people alike from a slightly surreal perspective. Rambling On is a collection of stories set in Hrabal's Kersko that depicts the hilariously absurd atmosphere of a tiny cottage community in the heart of a forest in the middle of totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Several of these stories were rejected by the Communist censors during the 1970s; this first English translation features the original, uncensored versions.