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	Bohumil Hrabal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bohumil Hrabal (March 28, 1914, Brno - February 3, 1997, Prague) was a famous Czech writer.
		Bohumil Hrabal painted among his beloved cats on the "Hrabal Wall" in Prague
		Bohumil Hrabal - the Close Watcher of Trains - a biography and study, with many excerpts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bohumil_Hrabal (748 words)

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		Bohumil Hrabal is one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century.
		Hrabal was thoroughly familiar with the background of the stories - a small town, the outskirts of Prague, the Kladno ironworks and the waste paper recycling centre.
		Bohumil Hrabal's greatest achievement in the period when his work was first published was the collection of short stories taken from various sources and called Inzerát na dům, ve kterém už nechci bydlet (Advertisement for a House I Don't Want to Live in Anymore,1965);.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /Slavonic/Hrabal1.htm (6667 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| How Bohumil Hrabal's writings kickstarted a Czech cinematic revolution
		Bohumil Hrabal's tales of ordinary people kickstarted a cinematic revolution in his homeland - and the Prague pub where he held court became a port of call for visiting dignitaries, including Bill Clinton.
		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.
		Based on Hrabal's collection of short stories, first published in 1963, the five episodes of the 1965 film Pearls of the Deep came to be regarded as the manifesto of the new generation of Czech film-makers, now universally known as the Czech new wave.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,441540,00.html (1472 words)

	LRB \| James Wood : Bohumil Hrabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hrabal deeply admired The Good Soldier Svejk, and in Total Fears, a selection of letters written to an American scholar of Czech literature, he praises the way Hasek's novel is 'written as though he tossed it off with his left hand, after a hangover, it's pure joy in writing'.
		Hrabal may have heard from someone about a real company's mad scheme, but he takes the story and passes it through the madness of his escapist hero, and in doing so, glazes it with a further strangeness.
		On 3 February 1997, Bohumil Hrabal, sick and in despair, haunted by what he called his own 'loud solitude', and obsessed by the idea of 'jumping from the fifth floor, from my apartment where every room hurts', fell from the fifth floor of a hospital while he was trying to feed the pigeons.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v23/n01/wood02_.html (3789 words)

	Remembrance of Things Past - Linda Simon
		Bohumil Hrabal, one of Czechoslovakia's most acclaimed writers, is perhaps best known to American readers as the author of Closely Watched Trains, a novel that, in 1967, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film.
		In Hrabal's other tales, although he alludes to political events in Czechoslovakia, he is more interested in exploring the ways in which ordinary people perceive reality and create their own imaginary worlds.
		Hrabal's language is earthy and direct, his images vivid and intense, and always evident is his engagement with readers and his love of writing.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1993/december/Sa10269.htm (274 words)

	Bohumil Hrabal - 10-05-2000 - Radio Prague
		Bohumil Hrabal was one of the rare breed of authors who are loved by readers and critics alike.
		Hrabal was born in 1914 in the Moravian city of Brno, the illegitimate son of Maria Kilianova.
		Hrabal must have also drawn on his experiences working on the Czech railways while writing 'Closely Observed Trains', a work which was first published in 1965.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/36665 (785 words)

	Bohumil Hrabal - a few notes on the writer's style - 10-12-2003 - Radio Prague
		Hrabal showed a deep empathy for characters on the periphery and developed a lyrical and tragicomic sensibility to describe their lives, by extension our own.
		Bohumil Hrabal was always fascinated with individuals pushed to the periphery - something he was attracted to when he first began writing in the early Fifties, the period of Stalinist oppression which weighed heavily on so many.
		Hrabal was also a big fan of James Joyce and could recall whole passages of his work.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/48346 (1461 words)

	photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was a famous writer who wrote during the oppressive regime in Communist Czechoslovakia.
		Upon Hrabal's death in 1997 the painting was to be a part of an exhibition in memorial for the writer.
		Vaclav Krejcik having a playful style as a painter, decided it would be better to paint Hrabal as an old lady living with her cats.
	www.saintlaurent.net /artwork.htm (355 words)

	NEDWEB/Literatuur in context - Hrabal, Bohumil
		Hrabal werd geboren als buitenechtelijke zoon van Marie Kyliánová en werd de eerste drie jaar van zijn leven opgevoed door haar ouders in Brno.
		Hrabal ging in Nymburk naar de gemeentelijke lagere school en na een jaar gymnasium te Brno (1925-26) bezocht hij hier het staatsatheneum (1926-1934).
		Hrabal stuurde in de jaren 1937-1939 gedichten en artikelen naar de regionale kranten Občanské listy (Burgerbladen) en Nymburské listy (Nymburger Bladen).
	www.ned.univie.ac.at /lic/autor.asp?aut_id=16592&user_lang_id=4 (912 words)

	Waggish: Bohumil Hrabal: I Served the King of England
		I read Hrabal many years ago in a small-press English language edition of Total Fears, portraying the wandering mind of an aging writer and what might be most accurately termed his tulpa, a female correspondent that he monologues to and rhapsodizes over.
		Hrabal writes in a breezy, propulsive way, tossing off curious images even as he keeps things going quite quickly.
		Yet Hrabal never pulls back enough to see anything beyond Ditie's eyes, and the book reads as one of the most immanent stories of life around the war.
	waggish.org /2005/03/bohumil_hrabal_i_served_the_king_of_england.html (666 words)

	LIC - Literature in Context - Hrabal, Bohumil
		Hrabal has been born as an extra-marital son of Marie Kyliánová and has been brought up the first three years of his life by her parents in Brno.
		After the marriage of his mother with František Hrabal (1917) they lived in Polná, where Hrabal’s* father worked as an employee in a brewery, and from 1920 onwards in Nymburk, where František Hrabal was supervisor and later director of a brewery.
		In Nymburk Hrabal went to the municipal elementary school and after a year at the grammar school in Brno (1925-26) he went to the state secondary school (1926-1934).
	www.ned.univie.ac.at /lic/autor.asp?aut_id=16592&user_lang_id=4 (919 words)

	Czech Centre London: Bohumil Hrabal The Sad King of Czech Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Bohumil Hrabal is one of the major writers and innovators of post-war European literature.
		Hrabal’s imaginative way with storytelling, the individuality of his characters and his concern for the lives and language of ordinary people are greatly appreciated for their authencity and humour.
		In 1989 Hrabal began to write short individual texts in the form of letters addressed to Dubenka (April Gifford), the muse of his later years.
	www.czechcentre.org.uk /events/sad_king.html (187 words)

	Hrabal Bohumil - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Hrabal Bohumil - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Hrabal, Bohumil (1914-1997), Czech novelist and short-story writer.
		He was born in Brno-Zidenice, in Moravia, and studied law at the Charles...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Hrabal_Bohumil.html (77 words)

	Masako Fidler, Brown University
		Prose by Bohumil Hrabal, one of the most significant writers of Czech literature, intrigues not only literary scholars, but also linguists with its distinct language.
		Hrabal’s texts are said to be marked for clause-inversion that leads to specific rhythm and to spontaneous emergence of imageries (Jankovič 1994:245).
		Most importantly, Hrabal’s texts are often characterized by Pábení—a unique narrative style that combines elements of spoken narration and mystification.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2003/abstracts/Fidler.htm (382 words)

	Narratives Under Communism (Fiction)
		Hrabal cuts close to a sentimentality that is not nearly as present in his other works, but I would argue that his quiet inclusion of a social commentary translates into a critique of both traditionalism and impending modernity.
		Hrabal establishes a complex relationship between the husband and wife and similarly presents us with a complex struggle between views of the past and future.
		It is difficult to distinguish if Hrabal’s seeming ambivalence towards the modern is due to this particular new world’s implicit relationship with the seat of communist authority, or if his criticism would extend to any or all societies undergoing a process of modernization.
	www.utmosis.net /kevin/chandler/occupation.htm (763 words)

	Amazon.ca: Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The conditions under which Hrabal created [his] oeuvre, the final lifting with the collapse of Communism in 1989 and their grievous, indestructible memory, are all recorded, along with visits to Britain and the Delighted States in an extraordinary series of half-imaginary letters to Dubenka a visiting American student who made a great impression on Hrabal.
		It is equal parts a love story, a personal memoir, and aching commentary on the fears Hrabal felt during the Communist regime as both a writer suppressed by the regime and fueled by it.
		Hrabal, a man of afterthoughts, writes his letters much as he does in his other works, in streams of consciousness.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/8090217192 (478 words)

	R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Bohumil Hrabal's Total Fears is a nexus of Twisted Spoon's concerns: written late in life by a man who lived through both wars, it gives a firsthand impression of the impact Czech history has had on a single author.
		Hrabal, best known for Closely Watched Trains, here alludes to the nullifying effect of the political situation, which seems to have driven him out of the world and into his mind.
		Hrabal's casual language discloses his obsession with communication, the desire to speak to his reader as his beloved authors have spoken to him.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1999spring/twistedspoon.shtml (737 words)

	Amazon.com: I Served the King of England (Vintage International): Books: Bohumil Hrabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Bohumil Hrabal's I Served the King of England is a beautiful, sparse, simply told story about a little man named Ditie.
		Hrabal's I Served the King of England is one of those stories.
		Hrabal does a wonderful job of bringing characters to life and revealing much of the humor and sadness of everyday Czech life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679727868?v=glance (2642 words)

	Art Film 2001 - News: Chris Kijne: Hrabal shouted "damn you!" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		She was working in the Film Library in Bratislava, so my first encounter with Hrabal was through films of the director Menzel, which adapted several of his works.
		The closest we came to him was standing in the front of the gate of his house in Kersk, when Hrabal shouted "damn you!" (laughs).
		Hrabal always made the connections between high and low culture, philosophy and everyday life.
	www.artfilm.sk /history/news2001/kijne.html (640 words)

	Amazon.com: Too Loud a Solitude: Books: Bohumil Hrabal,Michael Henry Heim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hrabal, despite obtaining a degree in law from Prague's Charles University was forced to work as a manual laborer in the 1950s.
		Hrabal's message is no different than what parents tell their kids in the Western world today (and perhaps always, in every society): we've fought and died for your freedoms, and now you don't even appreciate them.
		Hrabal's narrator spins brief vignettes about events in his life, "portrait of the artist as an old mushroom face", always coming back to the idea of heaven.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156904586?v=glance (2772 words)

	Amazon.com: Closely Watched Trains (European Classics): Books: Bohumil Hrabal,Edith Pargeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Bohumil Hrabal's Closely Watched Train is a beautiful book whose lingering impact on the reader is greater than one would suspect from looking at its length - 85 pages.
		Hrabal's short novella "Closely Observed Trains" (the title under which it is published in Britain)is set in a railway station in a small town in Czechoslovakia in the winter of 1945.
		The central theme of the book is the various strategies people use to survive in the tragic circumstances of war and occupation- courageous acts of resistance, petty acts of defiance (such as using the metal from a downed German plane to roof rabbit-hutches and chicken-coops) and continuing to pursue the trivia of existence.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810112787?v=glance (1879 words)

	Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Bohumil Hrabal, whose novel of romance under Nazi occupation inspired the Oscar-winning film Closely Watched Trains, accidentally fell from a fifth-floor window and died Monday.
		Hrabal, a lawyer by profession, turned to writing in the early 1960s.
		He wrote nearly 50 books, many of which could not be officially published in communist Czechoslovakia.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/97/02/05/obit.html (216 words)

	Waggish: Bohumil Hrabal: Too Loud a Solitude
		It's tempting to draw all sorts of symbols out of the narrative, given the Communist backdrop and the frequent mention of all sorts of classical thinkers.
		But I resisted this because Hrabal isn't one to let symbols dominate a fable.
		Just as the story of I Served the King of England illustrated the rise and fall and rise of a small man through his nearly myopic view, Too Loud a Solitude is worth seeing in its most immediate context.
	www.waggish.org /2005/06/bohumil_hrabal_too_loud_a_solitude.html (641 words)

	New publication: Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97): Papers from a Symposium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was a writer who held considerable fascination for his Czech public, based in large measure on his bohemian way of life in a society, Czechoslovak 'socialist' society, which rarely exhibited open tolerance for its rebels and misfits.
		Among his contemporaries, his popularity is perhaps comparable to that of Milan Kundera or Josef Škvorecký (like Hrabal, also published abroad under the 'old régime'), and the evidence is that he did have qualities which have given him not only an enduring appeal, but secured him, on his home ground, considerable attention by literary scholars.
		The relative success of Hrabal in terms of reader reception in English (quite a lot has been translated) is still to be matched by the attention paid to him by literary scholarship.
	www.ssees.ac.uk /hrabal.htm (300 words)

	Bohumil Hrabal: Total Fears
		Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia.
		He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s.
		Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period.
	www.traktor.cz /twisted/hrabal.html (125 words)

	The Book of Hrabal (Péter Esterházy) - book review
		And she wonders about the two men in the car outside who are obviously watching her, not realising that they are angels sent by the Lord, only pretending to be secret policemen.
		The long central chapter of The Book of Hrabal is an extended inner monologue by Anna; on either side of that are shorter third chapters with mixed third person perspectives and dialogues, involving Anna, her writer and his mother, the Lord and his angels, and jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker.
		The style is allusive and the subject material is disjoint, touching on prisons and interrogations and surveillance in communist Hungary, theology, literature and writing, marriage and family, and jazz music, among other topics.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Hrabal.html (214 words)

	Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		During the communist era, the term “carnival” often became a means to reinterpret “modernist” or “surrealist” aspects of Hrabal’s work as part of the folk tradition.
		In Hrabal’s novel, as in Baxtin’s carnival, authoritarian views and hierarchies are countered by the physical life of the human body.
		Hrabal’s narrative creates ambivalent images which lower symbols of authority while expressing the openness of the grotesque body as well as its regenerative power.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/1999/abstract-utf8-30.html (365 words)

	Closely Watched Trains, Bohumil Hrabal
		Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most popular works.
		Milos Hrma is a timid railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief.
		Hrabal is one of the greatest and most inventive Czech writers living today." --World Literature Today
	nupress.northwestern.edu /title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1278-7 (114 words)

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