From Goodreads
Closely Watched Trains
Bohumil Hrabal
I enjoyed Closely Watched Trains more than Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age. Mainly, I enjoyed the former more than the latter because the former was written using more conventional punctuation. Hrabal combines absurdity and hilarious notions to highlight life during wartime and the success of resistance. It's poignant, dark and full of life. I thought it was a great book and I think I'd like to watch the movie.
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Bohumil Hrabal
The poetic prose of this little novella is beautiful in its ugliness and ugly in its beauty. Like some pre-Socratic philosopher he guides the reader from opposite producing opposite through a rambling thought experiment. There isn't much structure or story to this book and I probably missed some of the references due to my inability to read it untranslated and my lack of understanding in the history of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire's politics. But, the writing was interesting and moved rapidly along enough to accommodate my insufficiency.
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Bohumil Hrabal
The poetic prose of this little novella is beautiful in its ugliness and ugly in its beauty. Like some pre-Socratic philosopher he guides the reader from opposite producing opposite through a rambling thought experiment. There isn't much structure or story to this book and I probably missed some of the references due to my inability to read it untranslated and my lack of understanding in the history of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire's politics. But, the writing was interesting and moved rapidly along enough to accommodate my insufficiency.
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