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		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.
		As if it were a warning from Hrabal to his Czech audiences: as long as you remain in a child-like state, you may survive: the moment you reach maturity and adulthood, you die.
		Hrabal rejects the idea of revolution: revolution liberates the basic of human instincts and ends in a whirlwind of violence.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /Slavonic/Hrabal1.htm (6667 words)

	Bohumil Hrabal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, raised in Nymburk brewery as the manager's step-son, Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.
		It was noted that Hrabal lived on the fifth floor of his apartment building and that suicides by leaping from a fifth-floor window figured in more than one of his books.
		Many of Hrabal's characters are portrayed as "wise fools" - simpletons with occasional or inadvertent profound thoughts - who are also given to coarse humour, lewdness, and a determination to survive and enjoy oneself despite harsh circumstances.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bohumil_Hrabal (773 words)

	LRB \| James Wood : Bohumil Hrabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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.
		As usual in Hrabal, political critique is slyly neutralised by the unreliability, indeed in this case the madness, of the narrator.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v23/n01/wood02_.html (3800 words)

	Bohumil Hrabal
		Hrabal established himself relatively late as writer, at the age of 49, although he had started to write poetry in the 1940s.
		As Jaroslav Hasek in his time, Hrabal spend much time in pubs, not only for the good company, but for the tall tales and anecdotes he heard and which were washed down with slivovitze or a mug of Pilsner Urquell.
		Hrabal's characters are poor workers, soldiers, political anarchists, antiheroes, poets, social misfits, eccentrics, whose imagination and personal histories bring colour into the meaningless everyday life.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /hrabal.htm (1678 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| How Bohumil Hrabal's writings kickstarted a Czech cinematic revolution
		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.
		But Hrabal's fantastic story of an apprentice waiter from the 1930s to the communist takeover was written at one stretch without reworking the spontaneity of its images.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/classics/story/0,6000,441615,00.html (1479 words)

	Remembrance of Things Past - Linda Simon
		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.
		Not until 1989 was Hrabal's fiction available in English translation: first If I Served the King of England, a lighthearted tale of the adventures of a busboy who eventually becomes a successful hotel owner, then Too Loud a Solitude, the fictional memoir of a trash collector who rescues books from destruction.
		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)

	photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Upon Hrabal's death in 1997 the painting was to be a part of an exhibition in memorial for the writer.
		Hrabal was known for his love of cats.
		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)

	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)

	CER \| Czech Film: Menzel and Hrabal's Oscar-winning work
		Hrabal wrote as if he was assembling a mosaic, and the author admitted that surrealism and stream of consciousness influenced his style.
		Thus, for example, when the lecherous dispatcher Hubička (whose name means "little kiss," one of many cases of Hrabal using a person's surname to reflect on their character)seduces a young telegraphist by means of stamping her legs and thighs with official railway stamps it is presented as a gentle sexual ceremony.
		Whereas Hrabal uses the literal figure of his mother as the narrator of the text, the director transforms the storytelling into the third person form.
	www.ce-review.org /01/9/kinoeye9_kosulicova.html (3910 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.
	www.waggish.org /2005/03/bohumil_hrabal_i_served_the_king_of_england.html (666 words)

	Skalna-- Stories-A Beer with Hrabal
		Hrabal might return tomorrow," a neighbor told us. But he added that he wasn't sure if the writer would be interested in talking to us. Only last week he had sent away a bus full of Hungarian journalists.
		Hrabal that I had flown all the way from San Francisco, where Hrabal had spent wonderful times with the young American teacher he had named Duběnka. The man smiled a little and said he'd try, but couldn't promise anything.
		Hrabal was so generous that he unwrapped a mound of thinly sliced salami and arranged wheat rolls around that they looked like soldiers going to battle. A fifth man arrived with a bag full of more rolls. He said that they were the best you could get in Prague.
	home.pacbell.net /renilk/skalna/english/stories/beer_hrabal.html (1520 words)

	Art Film 2001 - News: Chris Kijne: Hrabal shouted "damn you!" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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)

	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.
		Hrabal’s lifelong friendship with the poet and musician Karel Marysek is dating back to the year 1935.
	www.ned.univie.ac.at /lic/autor.asp?aut_id=16592&user_lang_id=4 (920 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 (913 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| How Bohumil Hrabal's writings kickstarted a Czech cinematic revolution
		While Hrabal's largely unpublished pre-war work had come under the influence of the avant-garde, his experience of the Nazi occupation and of postwar Stalinism was to lead in other directions.
		Hrabal, however, drew the line at a happy ending.
		Here Hrabal himself emphasised the lyrical touch, a search for a time "filled with the joyful discovery of the world".
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,441540,00.html (1469 words)

	Kinoeye \| Czech Horror: Juraj Herz interviewed
		Hrabal also gave me a novel to read that he was just getting ready to publish, called Ostře sledované vlaky [Closely Watched trains, 1965].
		About that time Hrabal told me—maybe he said it to everybody—that my film story for Perličky na dně was the best, and he gave me another novel to read called Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále [I Served the King of England, first published in samizdat in 1974].
		Hrabal was great for the beginning, but I knew that I wanted to find my own character.
	www.kinoeye.org /02/01/kosulicova01.php (7354 words)

	Bohumil Hrabal: Total Fears
		In these letters written to April Gifford between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) chronicles the momentous events of those years as seen, more often than not, from the windows of his favorite pubs.
		Interspersed are fragmented memories of trips taken to Britain - as he attempted to track down every location mentioned in Eliot's "The Waste Land" - and the United States, where he ends up in one of Dylan Thomas's haunts comparing the waitresses to ones he knew in Prague.
		The style will be familiar to readers of Hrabal: a stream of consciousness reflection presenting a poetic train of associations.
	www.traktor.cz /twisted/totalfears.html (263 words)

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		Bohumil Hrabal is a famous Czech prose writer who died a few years ago and nowadays the kids learn about his work at school.
		Even if Josef Hrabal's father is a former active hockey player, it didn't seem that Josef will enjoy a career of his own at first.
		He was most happy with the offer which came from the Vsetin team and Josef finally agreed to join their developmental system prior to the season when he should start playing for the 9th grade team.
	hockeysfuture.com /article.php?sid=5459 (1719 words)

	Czech in from Guardian Unlimited: Culture Vulture
		Hrabal is a literary dreamer at the same time - it was said he could recite whole chapters of books from memory - and this likewise comes across.
		Hrabal is a literary dreamer at the same time - it was said he could recite whole chapters of books from memory - and this likewise comes across in his lyrical and eccentric authorial voice.
		Hrabal's "I Served the King of England" is a must-read.
	blogs.guardian.co.uk /culturevulture/archives/2006/02/21/czech_in.html (9257 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)

	Amazon.com: Closely Watched Trains (European Classics): Books: Bohumil Hrabal,Edith Pargeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The trains are an essential part of all the characters'lives in their jobs and their personal memories, and are related to the fight of Czechs partisans at the end of the II World War, which is the time the novel is placed.
		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 (2062 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)

	Czech Centre London: Bohumil Hrabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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 these letters, spanning the period from 1989 to 1992, Hrabal created a self-portrait, chronicled the momentous events of those years and gave a humorous and moving account of life in Prague under Nazi occupation, communism, and the brief euphoria following the revolution of 1989.
	www.czechcentre.org.uk /press_centre/releases/hrabal_sad.html (240 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: I Served the King of England (Picador Books): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Hrabal's description of Ditie's introduction to the lure of money and flesh is both comic and delightful.
		Hrabal's writing style is something of an anecdotal, stream of consciousness storytelling.
		Hrabal's I Served the King of England is one of those stories.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330308769 (1539 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)

	Amazon.com: I Served the King of England (Vintage International): Books: Bohumil Hrabal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		PW found that "Hrabal's depiction of post-WW II Czechoslovakia is unrealistically rosy, and Ditie's moral transformation is not entirely persuasive.
		As is typical of Hrabal's work (e.g., Closely Watched Trains, LJ 2/1/69), the novel is full of zany characters whose antics range from supremely entertaining to bizarrely tragic.
		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 (2847 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)

	Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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)

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