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portada Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in age
Type
Physical Book
Author
Introduction by
Translated by
Publisher
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
117
Format
Paperback
Weight
0.35
ISBN13
9781590173770
Edition No.
58300th
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in age

Bohumil Hrabal (Author) · Adam Thirlwell (Introduction by) · Michael Heim (Translated by) · Nyrb Classics · Paperback

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in age - Hrabal, Bohumil ; Thirlwell, Adam ; Heim, Michael

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Synopsis "Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in age "

Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory conquests (and humiliations), of scandals both private and public, of military adventures and domestic feuds, of what things were like “in the days of the monarchy” and how they’ve changed since. As the book tumbles restlessly forward, and the comic tone takes on darker shadings, we realize we are listening to a man talking as much out of desperation as from exuberance. Hrabal, one of the great Czech writers of the twentieth century, as well as an inveterate haunter of Prague’s pubs and football stadiums, developed a unique method which he termed “palavering,” whereby characters gab and soliloquize with abandon. Part drunken boast, part soul-rending confession, part metaphysical poem on the nature of love and time, this astonishing novel (which unfolds in a single monumental sentence) shows why he has earned the admiration of such writers as Milan Kundera, John Banville, and Louise Erdrich.

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