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Why I write? : and other early prose pieces /
This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Marechal put it, "the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing." Taken from the period when Bohumil Hrabal shifted his focus from poetry to prose, these stories - many...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Checo |
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Prague, Czeck Republic :
Charles University, Karolinum Books,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
| Series: | Modern Czech classics.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Copyright
- Contents
- Why I write?
- Those Rapturous Riflemen
- Cain
- Trapezium Number Two
- The House that Refreshed Itself in a Flash
- The Feast of Sts Philip and James
- Scribes and Pharisees
- No Escape
- The Glorious Legend of Wantoch
- The Sufferings of Old Werther
- Protocol
- A Schizophrenic Gospel
- A January Story
- A February Story
- One Great Guy
- Atom Prince
- The Gabriel Explosion
- Made in Czechoslovakia
- Blitzkrieg
- Meetings by Chance and by Design
- Line No. 23a
- One Pretty Nondescript Station
- A Christening
- Be Expecting Me
- Toy Shop
- Everyday Chit-Chat
- A Woman in Love
- One Ordinary Day
- Notes
- Editorial Note
- About the Author
- About the Translator