By Bohumil Hrabal

Very good tales of Communist Prague by way of “the masterly Bohumil Hrabal” (The New Yorker) by no means earlier than released in English, the tales in Mr. Kafka and different stories from the Time of the Cult have been written quite often within the Nineteen Fifties and current the Czech grasp Bohumil Hrabal on the top of his powers. The tales trap a time whilst Czech Stalinists have been turning society the other way up, causing their social and political experiments on normally unwilling matters. those tales are set variously within the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague; at the raucous and unsafe manufacturing unit ground of the recognized Poldi steelworks the place Hrabal himself as soon as labored; in a cacophonous open-air dance corridor the place classical and renowned song come to blows; on the basement studio the place a crazed artist makes an attempt to type a countrywide icon; at the scaffolding round a decommissioned church. Hrabal captures women and men trapped in an eerily attractive nightmare, eager for an international the place “humor and metaphysical break out can reign supreme.” a hundred and sixty p

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So, where have you been these days? Pious Sister or franctireuse? 20 D o you smell nothing? I come from the lower depths. v ic h y : De profundis. Been eating with the civil servants— g e ro lste in : Nature boy. v ic h y : know, doctors and court personnel and so. Y ou Very curious crowd. One’s from Allenstein, and the other doesn’t go bathing because he has a wife and children. Unquestionably a very curious crowd; you must do it too, some time. When I walked in with my Houbigant, they all started sniffing the air!

How did you singe that off? o lf : No cause for worry, Highness. Elevate your gaze from your wretched carcass— g e r o l s t e in : ... Wha . . T o the com forting earth that sm ells so stran gely at this o lf: m om ent— g e r o l s t e in o lf : : Dreamer! D ream er? Cosmic sentiment? Moon and dark water—I? No, Highness, only my brain bleeds in a forebirth of indescribable bastardizations. You will not see them, nor shall I see them—but liquor amnii---g e r o l s t e in : A cordial, ha, ha, ha!

Breathtaking vision! Popular liberties, particularly in the field of social hygiene, cannot be prolonged by a farsighted state. One is tempted to speak of a wilderness, if not of mythical conditions—where, for example, is the nursing law: Monday, W ednesday, Friday on the right breast, the rest of the week on the left one? Where is the standardized coloring of infant feces, with compulsory reporting? Great tasks, Serene Highness. Let us impregnate the homeland, let us found a concern, let us educate the people—what am I saying, educate?

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