Too Loud a Solitude

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

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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.

读后感

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最起码，没有发明比人的语言牛的东西。 从人格的形成上看，主人公从废纸中汲取的文字营养和今天从互联网上看到的营养似乎也没有什么区别。似乎他老人家这种学习方式比我们今天的学校教育在最基础的方面还要先进很多。  

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用户评价

「ILONKA. Yes, that was her name」读完这最后一句刚好等的电车就来了。说不出什么感觉，大概是一种混着心酸的欣慰，毕竟小说第一句就说了「it's my love story」不难看出赫拉巴尔很喜欢加缪，嗯，我也很喜欢。

还没被生活毒打过的人表示这本书很难relate to。

在纽约的地铁上读完这本小书，掩卷恍如隔世，不知今夕是何夕

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

"Home again at last, eh, Sis?" 特别特别特别特别的击中了我