Some people speak like writers, but the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal writes like a talker. “I inhale images and then exhale them,” he once told an interviewer. It is fitting that much of Hrabal’s prose ...

In "The Magic Flute", an essay written in 1989, the year of the Velvet Revolution, the great Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal - who had lived all his life in Bohemia, thus enduring the occupation of his ...

Born 100 years ago in Brno on March 28, Bohumil Hrabal was one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century. Hrabal wrote in colloquial Czech and is famous for his acute observations and ...

Things have not gone quiet around the Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal, even though he has been dead since February 1997, when he defenestrated himself from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, à la ...

Bohumil Hrabal, trans. from the Czech by Stacey Knecht. Archipelago (Random, dist.), $18 trade paper (260p) ISBN 978-0-981955-73-5 A surreal and loquacious tale by Hrabal (I Served the King of England ...

After Bohumil Hrabal fell to his death in 1997 while feeding pigeons from a hospital window, the obituaries rightly described him as the most important Czech writer of his generation. He used to hold ...

In the acknowledgments to her translation of this small masterpiece, Stacey Knecht writes, “Apparently, it is possible to fall in love with a writer you’ve never met.” Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) may ...

Bohumil Hrabal, trans. from the Czech by Paul Wilson. New Directions, $14.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2480-2 Hrabal’s (The Little Town Where Time Stood Still) books are rightly considered ...

Bohumil Hrabal, trans. from the Czech by Paul Wilson. New Directions, $14.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2858-9 Hrabal (1914–1997) (Too Loud a Solitude) sketches a delightful portrait of his ...

Anthony Marra is the author of A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena. Ditie, the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's transcendent novel, I Served the King of England, is described in the jacket copy as "a ...

Milan Kundera called his Czech compatriot Bohumil Hrabal "our very best writer today." Were Hrabal still alive in 2014, he would doubtless be toasting himself with a glass or two of his beloved beer ...

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