Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

The beauty of Hrabal’s book is how he is able to make this tightly-wound object move…what Hrabal has created is an informal history of the indomitable Czech spirit. And perhaps…the human spirit * The Times *First-hand experience informs Hrabal’s work with a wonderful detail, irascibility and charm * Los Angeles Times *Hrabal has invented some of the most memorable characters in world literature * Los Angeles Times *

Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague’s Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his “hyper-realist” texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital window never to return.

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