Vita Nuova

ISBN-13: 9780810125469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str.

Bohumil Hrabal; Tony Liman

Opis

Vita Nuova is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective

of Bohumil Hrabal s wife, Elis.ka, about their life in Prague

from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Communist repression of artists was

at its peak.

Hrabal s inimitable humor, which in Elis.ka s ruminations ranges

from bawdy slapstick to cutting irony, is all the more penetrating for

being directed at himself. Vita Nuova showcases Hrabal s legendary

bohemian intellectual life, particularly his relationship with Vladimir

Boudnik. Hrabal creates a shrewd, lively portrait of Eastern European

intellectual life in the mid-twentieth century."