The Gentle Barbarian

by Bohumil Hrabal

Book Overview

The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's homage to Vladim?r Boudn?k, one of the greatest Czech visual artists of the 1950s and 1960s, whose life came to a tragic end shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968. Boudnik and Hrabal had a close and often contentious friendship. For a brief period, in the early 1950s, they both worked in the steel works in Kladno and lived in the same building in Prague.
Written in the early seventies, Hrabal's anecdotal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811228584
• ISBN13: 9780811228589
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.2"