Closely watched trains
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Author
Publication
1990 - Northwestern University Press, Evanston, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
Word Count
21,250 words, Guess
Page Count
85 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecloselywatchedtr00hrab
- ISBN-100810112787
- ISBN-139780810112780
- Goodreads87282
- OCLC Control Number263613914
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL24370575M
Classifications
- DDC891.8/6
Description
Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Miloš Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. Day after day as he watches trains fly by, he torments himself with the suspicion that he himself is being watched and with fears of impotency. Hrma finally affirms his manhood and, with a sense of peace and purpose he has never known before, heroically confronts a trainload of Nazis. Milan Kundera called the novel "an incredible union of earthly humor and baroque imagination." After receiving acclaim as a novel, Closely Watched Trains was made into an internationally successful film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1967. This edition includes a foreword by Josef Škvorecký.
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