Mr. Kafka and other tales from the time of the cult
By: Bohumil Hrabal ; translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
Contributors: Wilson, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1941- translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780811224802
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Fiction; Translations into English; History
Other titles: Mister Kafka and other tales from the time of the cult; Mr. Kafka.
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Never before published in English, the stories in Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult were written mostly in the 1950s and present the Czech master Bohumil Hrabal at the height of his powers. The stories capture a time when Czech Stalinists were turning society upside down, inflicting their social and political experiments on mostly unwilling subjects. These stories are set variously in the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague; on the raucous and dangerous factory floor of the famous Poldi steelworks where Hrabal himself once worked; in a cacophonous open-air dance hall where classical and popular music come to blows; at the basement studio where a crazed artist attempts to fashion a national icon; on the scaffolding around a decommissioned church. Hrabal captures men and women trapped in an eerily beautiful nightmare, longing for a world where "humor and metaphysical escape can reign supreme' " --
Notes: "New Directions paperbook original."

"NDP1315"--Spine.

Translated from the Czechoslovakian of: Inzerát na dům, ve kterém už nechci bydlet.
Table of contents: title: Author's introduction --; title: Mr. Kafka --; title: Strange people --; title: Angel --; title: Ingots --; title: Betrayal of mirrors --; title: Broken drum --; title: Beautiful Poldi.