The present paper is an attempt to deal with the complicated relationship between Bohumil Hrabal's writings and psychoanalysis. In the first part of the paper, the author concentrates on the explicit ...references to Freud in Hrabal's texts. These references seem to show that Hrabal's interest in the founder of psychoanalysis – mediated by surrealism – is concerned with Freud's particular interest in language and affectivity, resulting, in Hrabal, in a certain "therapeutic" view of literary writing. In the second part of the paper, this reading is extended to include certain Hrabalian motives that seem to surpass Hrabal's specific interest in Freud's work, namely, the motive of materiality of language and that of the imaginary (in the Lacanian sense).
Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, ...beer, cats, and women (in roughly that order)," Bohumil Hrabal is one of the most important, most translated, and most idiosyncratic Czech authors. In Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait, Jirí Pelán makes the case that this praise is far too narrow. A respected scholar of French and Italian literature, Pelán approaches Hrabal as a comparatist, expertly situating him within the context of European and world literature as he explores the entirety of Hrabal's oeuvre and its development over sixty years. Concise, clear, and as compulsively readable as the works of Hrabal himself, Bohumil Hrabal was universally praised by critics in its original Czech edition as one of best works of Hrabal criticism. Here it is beautifully rendered into English for the first time by David Short, a celebrated translator of Hrabal's works. Also featuring a fascinating selection of black-and-white images from Hrabal's life, Bohumil Hrabal is essential reading for anyone interested in this crucial Czech author.
This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature’s greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Maréchal 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 written in school notebooks, typed and read aloud to friends, or published in samizdat—often showcase raw experiments in style that would define his later works. Others intriguingly utilize forms the author would never pursue again. Featuring the first appearance of key figures from Hrabal’s later writings, such as his real-life Uncle Pepin, who would become a character in his later fiction and is credited here as a co-author of one piece, the book also contains stories that Hrabal would go on to cannibalize for some of his most famous novels. All together, iWhy I Write?/i offers readers the chance to explore this liminal phase of Hrabal’s writing. Expertly interpreted by award-winning Hrabal translator David Short, this collection comprises some of the last remaining prose works by Hrabal to be translated into English. A treasure trove for Hrabal devotees, iWhy I Write?/i allows us to see clearly why this great prose master was, as described by Czech writer and publisher Josef Škvorecký, “fundamentally a lyrical poet."
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The Velvet Revolution and an American graduate student inspired Bohumil Hrabal--one of Central Europe's greatest writers--to create a classic work on the collision of politics and art. He was born in ...1914, just a few months before Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot dead in Sarajevo, and only four years old when Czechoslovakia was born after the First World War. He was a 24-year-old studying law when the Germans marched into Prague in 1939. Hrabal took his law degree in 1946, but never practiced. As the Communists seized power in 1948, he began to write the literary works that would bring him fame. By the time of the Prague Spring in 1968, he was one of Czech literature's brightest stars--an ascent confirmed by the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1968 awarded to the adaptation of his novella, Closely Watched Trains. (Hrabal co-wrote the film's screenplay with director Jirí Menzel.)
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Soubor Rukovet pábitelského ucne obsahuje povídkovou tvorbu Bohumila Hrabala ze 70. let 20. století. Vesmes jde o texty psané v Kersku a Kerskem inspirované. Cást povídek vyla na jare 1978 v ...nakladatelství Ceskoslovenský spisovatel pod názvem Slavnosti sneenek, stejný titul mel i pozdejí film Jirího Menzela (1983), kde Hrabal spolupracoval na scénári. Kniha pak nekolikrát vyla a dále vychází v redakcní úprave 1. vydání. V tomto naem souboru obnovujeme puvodní autoruv zámer, v 70. letech cenzurovaný. Vracíme tehdy vynechané povídky a pridáváme prózu Druicka. Textovým východiskem je 8. svazek Sebraných spisu Bohumila Hrabala (Praská imaginace, 1993), odkud také prebíráme název.
According to the psychoanalyst Danielle Quinodoz, this reintegration responds to our pressing need to take stock of our internal life-history and give meaning to it as a whole (1–5). ...he must be ...ruthless in executing it: "a fierce battle is taking place in all the sewers, so not even rat heavens are humane, and so I can't be humane either" (TLS 25; PHS 369). ...he seems almost proud of himself, as the repeated phrase, "Now listen up to what I'm going to tell you Dávejte pozor, co vám ted'ka řeknu," suggests.12 It is only at the end of his narrative that he makes his position clear. According to Jiří Pelán, Haňt'a's effort to find humane order in an inhumane world is similarly quixotic: his attempt to realize a utopian idea of justice, truth, and beauty in a world in which not even the heavens are humane is doomed to failure ("Quijotismus" 467, 470).
The centenary of Bohumil Hrabal might be the chance to suggest to the reading group an excursion beyond the Anglophone. Welcome the bouncing Czechs. 00:00 So esteemed is Bohumil Hrabal...
Vaclav Havel, Milan Kundera and Bohumil Hrabal, the three giants in Czech literature, have paid their homage to the Gentle Revolution. They synthesize what Czech represented until the revolution: the ...division into the three trends of dissident, "gray Zone" and exile writing.
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