Bohumil Hrabal

Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Milos Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. Day after day as he watches trains fly by, he torments himself with the suspicion that he himself is being watched and with fears of impotency. Hrma finally affirms his manhood and, with a sense of peace and purpose he has never known before, heroically confronts a trainload of Nazis.

Closely Watched Trains

A literary master's story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from "a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail" (Julian Barnes)

All My Cats

This parable of censorship and the modern state centers on Hanta, a trash collector whose habit of salvaging and reading discarded books has brought him both the richness of the classics and the ridicule of his boss

Too Loud a Solitude

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Ostře sledované vlaky

Ludmila Dismanová

Mário Gomes

Uma solidão demasiado ruidosa

Una solitudine troppo rumorosa

Gürültülü Yalnızlık Hašek, Čapek ve Kundera ile beraber yirminci yüzyılın en önemli Çek yazarlarından Bohumil Hrabal’ın otobiyografik başyapıtı. “Otuz beş yıldır atık kâğıt işinde çalışıyorum, bütün love story’m bu benim.” Hidrolik presinde yıllarca atık kâğıt ve ıskarta kitap presleyerek gayriihtiyari mürekkep yalamış bilge ve berduş bir adamın kitaplarla, geçmişle, halesini yitirmiş dünyayla trajik ama bir o kadar da komik “aşk hikâyesi”. İhtiyar Haňťa’nın hurda kâğıtlarla dolu mahzeninde daldığı hayaller ve düşüncelerle, çalışırken içtiği biralarla, Prag sokaklarında ve birahanelerinde yâd ettiği hatıralarla gitgide kalabalıklaşan bir yalnızlıkta uzadıkça uzuyor farfaracı tiradları. Lao Tzu ve Kant, Talmud ve Alman filozoflar, Antik Yunan ve modern Prag… Çingene kızı ve aziz heykelleri, sanat felsefesi profesörü ve lağım fareleri… Tarihin ve toplumun uzak uçları birbirine kavuşuyor Haňťa’nın dolambaçlı monologlarında. Yaşayarak okunmuş ve okuyarak yaşanmış bir ömrün bilgelik ve mizah dolu anlatısı Gürültülü Yalnızlık. “Flaubert Bilirbilmezler’i yazmak için iki bin kitap okuması gerektiğini söylemişti. Hrabal’ın ise büyük kitaplarını yazmak için –bundan eminim– iki bin insan tanıması gerekmişti.” – Jiří Kolář Çeviren Elif Gökteke Notos Edebiyat-Roman

Gürültülü Yalnızlık

From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply of furniture to smash when he's angry, Bohumil Hrabal creates a range of enchanting and memorable characters - confirming his status as one of Europe's greatest writers.

Cutting it Short ; and The Little Town where Time Stood Still

Tanhaeeye por hayahoo [Farsi/Persian]

28. března 2014 uplyne 100. výročí narození Bohumila Hrabala, jednoho z nejvýznamnějších spisovatelů české poválečné literatury a kmenového autora nakladatelství Mladá fronta. K tomuto výročí jsme pro Vás připravili to nejlepší z díla Bohumila Hrabala v kompletu. Slavnosti sněženek, Ostře sledované vlaky, Něžný barbar, Postřižiny.

Postřižiny

Wonderful stories of Communist Prague by “the masterly Bohumil Hrabal” (The New Yorker)

And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult

Mr. Kafka

"By the writer whom 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. --

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