Rambling on: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

by Bohumil Hrabal

Book Overview

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point, he quickly made his mark on the Czech literary scene; by the time of his death he was ranked with Jaroslav Hasek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera as among the nation's greatest twentieth-century writers. Hrabal's fiction blends tragedy with humor and explores the anguish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8024623161
• ISBN13: 9788024623160
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 7.2"