Bohumil Hrabal
Praise for Mr Kafka
Hrabal’s magical stories are comic and human... They inhabit a utopian province, the realm of laughter and tears... A great writer
James Wood, London Review of Books
Hrabal bounces and floats. His mode is a sort of dancing realism, somewhere between fairytale and satire. He is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail. We should read ...
Julian Barnes
The discovery of Hrabal's style is very simple. It makes pleasure a principle... Each of Hrabal's novels describes a spiral, a constant intricate movement between pleasure and fear and guilt and delight: they descri ...
Adam Thirlwell, Guardian
Hrabal’s magical stories are comic and human... They inhabit a utopian province, the realm of laughter and tears... A great writer
James Wood, London Review of Books
Hrabal bounces and floats. His mode is a sort of dancing realism, somewhere between fairytale and satire. He is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail. We should read ...
Julian Barnes
The discovery of Hrabal's style is very simple. It makes pleasure a principle... Each of Hrabal's novels describes a spiral, a constant intricate movement between pleasure and fear and guilt and delight: they descri ...
Adam Thirlwell, Guardian
Hrabal’s magical stories are comic and human... They inhabit a utopian province, the realm of laughter and tears... A great writer
James Wood, London Review of Books
Hrabal bounces and floats. His mode is a sort of dancing realism, somewhere between fairytale and satire. He is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail. We should read ...
Julian Barnes
The discovery of Hrabal's style is very simple. It makes pleasure a principle... Each of Hrabal's novels describes a spiral, a constant intricate movement between pleasure and fear and guilt and delight: they descri ...
Adam Thirlwell, Guardian
