Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
$19.90
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
A trail-blazing, transportive novella that contains all the energy, history, and charm of one man’s lifetime. This is Bohumil Hrabal’s most unique masterpiece.
This ebullient, gallivanting novella encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic’s best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. An ageing man holds court, spinning a single, unbroken stream of stories about his life – loves won and lost, jobs taken and abandoned, moments of absurdity and chance. As he talks…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529986105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529986109 |
| Author: | Bohumil Hrabal, Michael Henry Heim |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 76g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Brief Encounters |
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About The Author
Bohumil Hrabal
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.
Hrabal won international acclaim for books such as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. He is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period.
In February 1997, he died after falling from a hospital window.
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