Bohumil Hrabal
Czech author beloved for his exuberant, tragicomic fiction that captures the richness of ordinary Czech life under communism. Closely Watched Trains and I Served the King of England are masterpieces of humane comedy.
Works
- Closely Watched TrainsComing-of-age novella about railway workers during Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia
- I Served the King of EnglandComic picaresque novel following waiter's survival through fascism and communism
- Too Loud a SolitudeExistential novella about man's life of crushing waste and unexpected transcendence
- Cutting It ShortTragicomic tale of infidelity and village life in rural Czech countryside
- The Little Town Where Time Stood StillStories of ordinary people in Czech provincial life and nostalgic memory