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Paperback. Showcases the author's bohemian intellectual life, and his relationship with Vladimir Boudnik. Translator(s): Liman, Tony. Series Editor(s): Wachtel, Andrew Baruch. Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe S. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Vita Nuova is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective of Bohumil Hrabal's wife, Eliska, about their life in Prague from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Communist repression of artists was at its peak. Hrabal's inimitable humor, which in Eliska's ruminations ranges from bawdy slapstick to cutting irony, is all the more penetrating for being directed at himself. ""Vita Nuova"" showcases Hrabal's legendary bohemian intellectual life, particularly his relationship with Vladimir Boudnik. Hrabal creates a shrewd, lively portrait of Eastern European intellectual life in the mid-twentieth century.
Vita Nuova is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective of Bohumil Hrabal's wife, Eliska, about their life in Prague from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Communist repression of artists was at its peak. Hrabal's inimitable humor, which in Eliska's ruminations ranges from bawdy slapstick to cutting irony, is all the more penetrating for being directed at himself. ""Vita Nuova"" showcases Hrabal's legendary bohemian intellectual life, particularly his relationship with Vladimir Boudnik. Hrabal creates a shrewd, lively portrait of Eastern European intellectual life in the mid-twentieth century.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Writings from an Unbound Europe S.
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810125469
SKU
V9780810125469
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About Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) is considered, along with Karel Capek and Milan Kundera, to be one of the great Czech writers of the twentieth century. He won international acclaim for the novels Closely Watched Trains (Northwestern, 1995), Too Loud a Solitude (1992), and I Served the King of England (1989). Tony Liman was born in Czechoslovakia in 1966 and grew up ... Read more
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