Why I Write?: The Early Prose from 1945 to 1952

by Bohumil Hrabal

"Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity."
--New Yorker

"A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership."
--Kirkus Reviews

This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Mar chal put it, "the moment when...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8024642689
• ISBN13: 9788024642680
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.1" x 7.2"