Too Loud a Solitude

Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the then-US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright on January 11th, 1994.Several of his works were not published in Czechoslovakia due to the objections of the authorities, including The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Městečko, kde se zastavil čas) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále).He died when he fell from a fifth floor hospital where he was apparently trying to feed pigeons. It was noted that Hrabal lived on the fifth floor of his apartment building and that suicides by leaping from a fifth-floor window were mentioned in several of his books.He was buried in a family grave in the cemetery in Hradištko. In the same grave his mother "Maryška", step father "Francin", uncle "Pepin", wife "Pipsi" and brother "Slávek" were buried.He wrote with an expressive, highly visual style, often using long sentences; in fact his work Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) is made up of just one sentence. Many of Hrabal's characters are portrayed as "wise fools" - simpletons with occasional or inadvertent profound thoughts - who are also given to coarse humour, lewdness, and a determination to survive and enjoy oneself despite harsh circumstances. Political quandaries and their concomitant moral ambiguities are also a recurrent theme.Along with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek and Milan Kundera - who were also imaginative and amusing satirists - he is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century. His works have been translated into 27 languages.

出版者:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

作者:Bohumil Hrabal

页数:112

译者:Michael Henry Heim

出版时间:1992-03

价格:USD 11.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780156904582

图书标签:捷克赫拉巴尔小说孤独外国文学外国小说小说集英译

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Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.

读后感

阅读由兴趣变为一种习惯的时候，我总不愿意去挑拣其中的“最”，因为越来越清晰的认知到读书是多么一件私我之事。我们或许可以试图在人群里凭借微弱的书之气息寻找到某些同盟，然后沉溺于杯盏交欢里的畅谈，但是那些交集是如此的短暂和局限，于是，我更渴慕用文字去致敬文字。 ...  

阅读由兴趣变为一种习惯的时候，我总不愿意去挑拣其中的“最”，因为越来越清晰的认知到读书是多么一件私我之事。我们或许可以试图在人群里凭借微弱的书之气息寻找到某些同盟，然后沉溺于杯盏交欢里的畅谈，但是那些交集是如此的短暂和局限，于是，我更渴慕用文字去致敬文字。 ...  

阅读由兴趣变为一种习惯的时候，我总不愿意去挑拣其中的“最”，因为越来越清晰的认知到读书是多么一件私我之事。我们或许可以试图在人群里凭借微弱的书之气息寻找到某些同盟，然后沉溺于杯盏交欢里的畅谈，但是那些交集是如此的短暂和局限，于是，我更渴慕用文字去致敬文字。 ...  

当然是被题目吸引而来。 打包工遇见那么多人，每天听着压力机喧嚣的工作声。但他孑然一身。孤独给了人伟大的想象及思辨的能力。所以汉嘉那么轻易地，把自己看见的幻象与真实自然而然地重合在一起。 我不知怎么的，尤其是在自己心情不太好，看着落日的时候，会想到...  

用户评价

Doesn’t make so much sense for me....不只是英文翻译有些拗口还是我太没文化…有一点存在主义的味道，一点点荒唐且有些漫无目的

欲重译。

This poetically written novel conveys a powerful message: the indestructibility of books and knowledge.

赫拉巴尔那富有韧劲的语言

邂逅：2014.11.图书馆； 旅程：2014.11.-2014.12.5.； 地点：坡县； 被琐事与各种deadline拖累没能很好地细品。书中好多用词也有些生涩。原以为标题说的是westlife唱的那种"maybe surrounded by/ a million people I/ still feel all alone”，但意向的来源却是陪伴了主人公三十五年的碎纸机。故事本身虽是用一种很轻松的方式在讲，但其本身却过于沉重。