Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age Hrabal Bohumil Paperback
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age Hrabal Bohumil Paperback Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece…
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age Hrabal Bohumil Paperback
Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Thus we learn of amatory conquests (and humiliations), of scandals both private and public, of military adventures and domestic feuds, of what things were like "in the days of the monarchy" and how they've changed since. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roue tells the story of his life--or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime's worth of stories.
As the book tumbles restlessly forward, and the comic tone takes on darker shadings, we realize we are listening to a man talking as much out of desperation as from exuberance.Hrabal, one of the great Czech writers of the twentieth century, as well as an inveterate haunter of Prague's pubs