Hrabal (animals speak with a human voice in them) are a bitter reverie on the attitude of humans to animals, on the situation of farmed animals (meat, skins, etc.) and the questionable future of hunting. The article closes with a list of "animal" works by the Czech writer....
#75.I Served the King of England Director/Writer: Jirí MenzelProducers:Rudolf BiermannDistributor: Sony Pictures Classics The Gist: Based on a picaresque novel by Czech novelistBohumil Hrabal, the burlesque rise and fall of an apprentice waiter in Prague during the first half of the last century...
Many characteristics of the prose of the outstanding Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal make his works quite difficult for adaptation for the cinema screen. Nevertheless, many films based on these works achieved a considerable artistic success and wrote themselves into the history of cinema. The novella ...
The author in article "The late works of Bohumil Hrabal" deals with the late work of Bohumil Hrabal, especially correspondence with the American student of bohemistic (Czech studies) April Gifford, which the writer called Dubenka. This imaginary correspondence was not conducted on the axis writer...
Silverman, TanyaLiterature Film Quarterly
Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1915, and lived through some of the most tumultuous years of Czech history. Hrabal grew up in the time of the First Republic, when literature moved away from nationalism to a more aesthetic view. In this frame, Hrabal likely...