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Death Of Mr. Baltisberger
Bohumil Hrabal
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Paperback / so. English translation originally published under the title The death of Mr. Baltisberger. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Series: Northwestern World Classics. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 227.
Originally published as The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, the fourteen stories in Romance showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal’s considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising warmth, and his hard-edged, fast-paced style. In the story "Romance," a plumber’s apprentice and a gypsy girl reach toward a tentative connection across the chasm that separates their worlds. Another unlikely love story, "World Cafeteria," features a romance between a young man whose girlfriend has just committed suicide and a bride whose husband lands in jail on their wedding night. The tone turns to the absurd in "The Death of Mr. ... Read more
Originally published as The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, the fourteen stories in Romance showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal’s considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising warmth, and his hard-edged, fast-paced style. In the story "Romance," a plumber’s apprentice and a gypsy girl reach toward a tentative connection across the chasm that separates their worlds. Another unlikely love story, "World Cafeteria," features a romance between a young man whose girlfriend has just committed suicide and a bride whose husband lands in jail on their wedding night. The tone turns to the absurd in "The Death of Mr. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Condition
New
Series
Northwestern World Classics
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810127012
SKU
V9780810127012
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About Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–97) is considered one of the greatest Czech novelists of the twentieth century. He won international acclaim for the novels Closely Watched Trains, I Served the King of England, and Too Loud a Solitude. Michael Henry Heim is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He is the translator of books by Bohumil Hrabal, Milan ... Read more
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