Closely Watched Trains

Bohumil Hrabal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2017
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-29022-4 (ISBN)

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For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; and the awesome scandal of Dispatcher Hubicka's gross misuse of the station's official stamps upon the telegraphist's anatomy. Beside these, Milos's part in the plan for the ammunition train seems a simple affair.

Closely Watched Trains, which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a masterpiece that fully justifies Hrabal's reputation as one of the best Czech writers of the twentieth century.

Bohumil Hrabal was one of the most important and admired Czech writers of the twentieth century. He was born and raised in Brno in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914. After working as a railway labourer, insurance agent, travelling salesman, manual labourer, paper-packer and stagehand, he published a collection of poetry that was quickly withdrawn by the communist regime. His best-known books include I Served the King of England, Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel) and Too Loud a Solitude. In 1997, he fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Modern Classics
Übersetzer	Edith Pargeter
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 197 mm
Gewicht	80 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-241-29022-8 / 0241290228
ISBN-13	978-0-241-29022-4 / 9780241290224
Zustand	Neuware