- Published: 3 March 2016
- ISBN: 9781473545076
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
Mr Kafka
- Published: 3 March 2016
- ISBN: 9781473545076
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
Hrabal bounces and floats. His mode is a sort of dancing realism, somewhere between fairytale and satire. He is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail. We should read him
Julian Barnes
The discovery of Hrabal's style is very simple. It makes pleasure a principle... Each of Hrabal's novels describes a spiral, a constant intricate movement between pleasure and fear and guilt and delight: they describe the difficult effort to be a hedonist in a world where pleasure has disappeare
Adam Thirlwell, Guardian
Hrabal’s magical stories are comic and human... They inhabit a utopian province, the realm of laughter and tears... A great writer
James Wood, London Review of Books
One of the most authentic incarnations of magical Prague, an incredible union of earthy humor and baroque imagination
Milan Kundera
Written 50 years ago, in a country whose system of government is utterly alien to our lived experience, these stories are still laugh-aloud funny on pretty much every page
Spectator
Laugh-aloud funny on pretty much every page.
Nicholas Lezard, Spectator