I Served the King of England
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia.
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099540939 (0099540932)
Publish date: August 6th 2009
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Czech Literature
This is one of the rare cases where I saw the movie well before I read the book. In part, I think my reaction to the book is because of what I saw with movie. Tracing the rise and fall of a busboy during the mid-1900s, I Served the King of England is a brew of humor, strangeness and beauty. It is im...
Man's body and spirit are indestructible...he is merely changed or metamorphized- Bohumil Hrabal, I Served the King of England (1971).Hrabal's satirically political, erotically imagined and poignant adventure story follows the rise and fall of a young busboy Ditie (Czech for 'child') who, being dimi...
Such a rewarding experience after all the bore I had to put up with in Torless' case. Satirical and witty, it's the kind of book you don't put down until you're done with it. The bizarre yet funny life and experiences of a Czech busboy who later becomes a millionaire and ends up his life accompanied...
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