Bohumil Hrabal. A Full-length Portrait

An English translation of a successful survey study of the entirety of Bohumil Hrabal's work. Originally intended for an Italian collected edition of BH's work, as revealed by the author's consistently comparative approach placing Hrabal in the context of European and world literature. The precise and original characterization of the development of the writer's style in the individual works is an ideal " an introduction to Hrabal" for beginners and advanced. The book is accompanied by a photographic appendix " portraits" BH and his world, translated and accompanied by a detailed bibliography of available translations of BH into English by David Short.