All My Cats from Bohumil Hrabal

Category: Bücher
Pages / Format: 96 S
Edit year: 2020
Publishing House: Penguin Books UKPenguin Classics
Language: Englisch
ISBN: 9780241422199

One of the great prose stylists of the 20th century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats and women Parul Sehgal

'One of the greatest European prose writers'Philip Roth<br><br>In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, tender and shocking meditation on the joys and torments of his life with them; how he became increasingly overwhelmed by the demands of the things he loved, even to the brink of madness.<br><br>'Dark and strange ... It begins with warmth and fluffiness, but soon descends into Dostoevskian horror'DailyTelegraph<br><br>'The Czech master exposed the animal within us'New Yorker

1GBBohumil Hrabalwas one of the most important and admired Czech writers of the twentieth century. He was born and raised in Brno in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914. After working as a railway labourer, insurance agent, travelling salesman, manual labourer, paper-packer and stagehand, he published a collection of poetry that was quickly withdrawn by the communist regime. His best-known books includeI Served the King of England,Closely Watched Trains(made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel) andToo Loud a Solitude. In 1997, he fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.

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