By Bohumil Hrabal
Translated via James Naughton
In those letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) among 1989 and 1991 yet by no means despatched, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) chronicles the momentous occasions of these years as obvious, usually, from the home windows of his favourite pubs. In his palavering, stream-of-conscious type that has marked him as one of many significant writers and innovators of postwar eu literature, Hrabal offers a funny and now and then relocating account of lifestyles in Prague less than Nazi profession, Communism, and the short euphoria following the revolution of 1989 while something appeared attainable, even red tanks. Interspersed are fragmented stories of journeys taken to Britain — as he tried to trace down each situation pointed out in Eliot’s “The Waste Land” — and the USA, the place he leads to one in every of Dylan Thomas’s haunts evaluating the waitresses to ones he knew in Prague. the result's a masterful mixture of non-public heritage and cost organization rendered in a prose as strong because it is poetic.
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Certainly. Granola never harmed anybody, nor the birds and bees—not to mention milk. God is unknowable, but nature is explaining herself all the time. What has she told us so far? That blacks are obviously inferior to whites, for one thing, and intended for menial work on white man’s terms. This clear lesson from nature, we should remind ourselves from time to time, allowed Thomas Jefferson to own slaves. Imagine that. “What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
This was in Indianapolis, the world’s largest city not on a navigable waterway. Cousin Richard telephoned back. He was thrilled. He said that Bernard’s signals were loud and clear simply everywhere on the radio band, drowning out music or news or drama, or whatever the commercial stations were putting out at the time. • • • This is certainly that kind of masterpiece, and a new name should be created for such an all-frequencies assault on the sensibilities. I propose the name blivit. ” I would not mind if books simpler than this one, but combining fiction and fact, were also called blivits.
Uncle John’s conclusion to this prologue is worth setting down here: “The two world wars in which the United States was arrayed against Germany were painful experiences for German-Americans. They hated to be obliged to fight their racial cousins, but they did so, and it is significant that of the millions of German descendants in the United States during those dreadful wars there was not one case of treason. “The Germans, while loving the country of their origin, did not approve of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his warlords, nor Hitler and his wretched Nazis.