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Piękna rupieciarnia
Bohumil Hrabal to pisarz legenda, niedościgniony gawędziarz, mistyk codzienności i – o czym mało kto wie – mistrz kamuflażu. W swoim pisarstwie stworzył galerię niezwykłych postaci, w których on sam wydaje się odbijać niczym w zwierciadle. Czyż bowiem spod rozgadania stryjka Pepiego, szaleństwa czułego barbarzyńcy Boudnika lub niedojrzałości kelnera Jana Dziecięcia nie wyziera twarz samego Hrabala?
W ięknej rupieciarni pisarz wreszcie opowiada o sobie bezpośrednio. W zebranych tu esejach, wywiadach, relacjach z podróży i listach poznajemy Hrabala filozofa, człowieka zafascynowanego sztuką, autoironicznego i krytycznego intelektualistę. Praskiego "pana doktora", spędzającego czas w towarzystwie Pounda, Schopenhauera, Eliota i Pollocka. To także zapis pięknego zdziwienia światem i głos epoki, która skończyła się na bruku, pod oknami szpitala na Bulovce wraz z samobójczą śmiercią pisarza.
W ięknej rupieciarni pisarz wreszcie opowiada o sobie bezpośrednio. W zebranych tu esejach, wywiadach, relacjach z podróży i listach poznajemy Hrabala filozofa, człowieka zafascynowanego sztuką, autoironicznego i krytycznego intelektualistę. Praskiego "pana doktora", spędzającego czas w towarzystwie Pounda, Schopenhauera, Eliota i Pollocka. To także zapis pięknego zdziwienia światem i głos epoki, która skończyła się na bruku, pod oknami szpitala na Bulovce wraz z samobójczą śmiercią pisarza.
- GenresCzech Literature
216 pages, Paperback
First published May 10, 2006
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About the author
Bohumil Hrabal
187 books1,324 followersBorn in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.
Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.
He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.
His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").
He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the then-US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright on January 11th, 1994.
Several of his works were not published in Czechoslovakia due to the objections of the authorities, including The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Městečko, kde se zastavil čas) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále).
He died when he fell from a fifth floor hospital where he was apparently trying to feed pigeons. It was noted that Hrabal lived on the fifth floor of his apartment building and that suicides by leaping from a fifth-floor window were mentioned in several of his books.
He was buried in a family grave in the cemetery in Hradištko. In the same grave his mother "Maryška", step father "Francin", uncle "Pepin", wife "Pipsi" and brother "Slávek" were buried.
He wrote with an expressive, highly visual style, often using long sentences; in fact his work Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) is made up of just one sentence. Many of Hrabal's characters are portrayed as "wise fools" - simpletons with occasional or inadvertent profound thoughts - who are also given to coarse humour, lewdness, and a determination to survive and enjoy oneself despite harsh circumstances. Political quandaries and their concomitant moral ambiguities are also a recurrent theme.
Along with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera - who were also imaginative and amusing satirists - he is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century. His works have been translated into 27 languages.
Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.
He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.
His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").
He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the then-US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright on January 11th, 1994.
Several of his works were not published in Czechoslovakia due to the objections of the authorities, including The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Městečko, kde se zastavil čas) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále).
He died when he fell from a fifth floor hospital where he was apparently trying to feed pigeons. It was noted that Hrabal lived on the fifth floor of his apartment building and that suicides by leaping from a fifth-floor window were mentioned in several of his books.
He was buried in a family grave in the cemetery in Hradištko. In the same grave his mother "Maryška", step father "Francin", uncle "Pepin", wife "Pipsi" and brother "Slávek" were buried.
He wrote with an expressive, highly visual style, often using long sentences; in fact his work Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) is made up of just one sentence. Many of Hrabal's characters are portrayed as "wise fools" - simpletons with occasional or inadvertent profound thoughts - who are also given to coarse humour, lewdness, and a determination to survive and enjoy oneself despite harsh circumstances. Political quandaries and their concomitant moral ambiguities are also a recurrent theme.
Along with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek, and Milan Kundera - who were also imaginative and amusing satirists - he is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century. His works have been translated into 27 languages.
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October 12, 2024
inspiruje, szokuje, momentami zawstydza i każe zastanowić się nad własnym życiem; na pewno warta uwagi i zagłębienia się w postać samego autora. robi wszystko to, co dobra książka robić powinna
February 20, 2025
on super pisze i też fajnie jest coś przeczytać co nie jest powieścią od niego bo jak pisze o sobie to jest straszny podchamp
June 6, 2019
lovely
January 28, 2022
Bardzo nierówny zbiór.
December 16, 2022
4.5
Ten zbiór uwydatnia esencje Hrabalskości, daje introspektywny wgląd w jego świat i aż brakuje mi słów żeby to opisać. Przez każde opowiadanie i wywiad czuć ile ma do powiedzenia, i robi to z pasją. Prześliczne.
Ten zbiór uwydatnia esencje Hrabalskości, daje introspektywny wgląd w jego świat i aż brakuje mi słów żeby to opisać. Przez każde opowiadanie i wywiad czuć ile ma do powiedzenia, i robi to z pasją. Prześliczne.
December 16, 2023
3.5? Prawdopodobnie zaczęłam przygodę z Hrabalem od zupełnie złej strony
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