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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.
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