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Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) is viewed by many as the quintessential Czech novelist of the post-war period. Best known in the English-speaking world through the film adaptations of his novels Closely Watched Trains (Northwestern, 1995), Too Loud a Solitude (Harvest, 1992), and I Served the King of England (Vintage, 1990), Hrabal is the author of many works of fiction. He fell to his death in 1997 while feeding pigeons from a hospital window. Tony Liman was born in Czechoslovakia in 1966 and grew up in Toronto, Canada. He received his MFA from the University of British Columbia. He is a writer and translator and his fiction has appeared in several Canadian literary journals. Liman lives in Vancouver, Canada.
"Anyone familiar with the dark and obliquely humorous imagination
of Mr. Hrabal . . . will know that he could no more bear the
predictability of . . . a formula than he could stomach the inane
conformism demanded by a socialist bureaucracy. . . [His book] is
an irresistibly eccentric romp, quick with the heart's life and
about as schematic as a drunken night on the town. . . . Mr.
Hrabal's is a cry of expiring humanism." --New York Times
"Hrabal's comedy, then, is complexly paradoxical. Holding in
balance limitless desire and limited satisfaction, it is both
rebellious and fatalistic, restless and wise. . .. It is a comedy
of blockage, of displacement, entrapment, cancellation. . ..
Hrabal, in Freud's terms, is a great humorist. And a great writer."
--London Review of Books
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