Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.
Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.
Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.
He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.
His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").
He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the then-US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright on January 11th, 1994.
Several of his works were not published in Czechoslovakia due to the objections of the authorities, including The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Městečko, kde se zastavil čas) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále).
He died when he fell from a fifth floor hospital where he was apparently trying to feed pigeons. It was noted that Hrabal lived on the fifth floor of his apartment building and that suicides by leaping from a fifth-floor window were mentioned in several of his books.
He was buried in a family grave in the cemetery in Hradištko. In the same grave his mother "Maryška", step father "Francin", uncle "Pepin", wife "Pipsi" and brother "Slávek" were buried.
He wrote with an expressive, highly visual style, often using long sentences; in fact his work Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) is made up of just one sentence. Many of Hrabal's characters are portrayed as "wise fools" - simpletons with occasional or inadvertent profound thoughts - who are also given to coarse humour, lewdness, and a determination to survive and enjoy oneself despite harsh circumstances. Political quandaries and their concomitant moral ambiguities are also a recurrent theme.
Along with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek and Milan Kundera - who were also imaginative and amusing satirists - he is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century. His works have been translated into 27 languages.
最起码,没有发明比人的语言牛的东西。 从人格的形成上看,主人公从废纸中汲取的文字营养和今天从互联网上看到的营养似乎也没有什么区别。似乎他老人家这种学习方式比我们今天的学校教育在最基础的方面还要先进很多。
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說實話,初讀這本書,我差點就把它擱置瞭。那種過於文學化、甚至有些晦澀的語言風格,著實考驗瞭一下我的耐心。它不像那些暢銷小說那樣直白易懂,它需要你像一個考古學傢那樣,小心翼翼地挖掘隱藏在字裏行間的意圖和情感。但一旦沉下心來,那種迷人的地方就開始顯現瞭。作者構建的世界觀異常紮實,那種對知識分子精神睏境的解剖入木三分。我特彆欣賞其中關於“異化”的探討,那種在重復性勞動和僵化體製中,個體精神如何逐漸被磨損殆盡的過程,寫得驚心動魄。它更像是一篇哲學的寓言,而不是一個傳統意義上的故事。讀到後麵,我甚至開始想象,如果我置身於那個情境之中,我會如何反應?這本書的好處就在於,它迫使你進行這種深入的自我拷問,它不是在講述彆人的故事,它是在映射我們共同的時代病癥。那種對美和精神價值的堅守,在庸常的生活麵前顯得如此脆弱,卻又如此寶貴。
评分那本書,讀完之後,心裏總有一種難以言喻的空落感,仿佛自己也跟著那些泛黃的書頁一起,在時間的洪流裏漂浮不定。它講述的那個小人物,他的生活軌跡是如此的微不足道,卻又在不經意間觸碰到瞭存在主義的某個核心命題。我尤其喜歡作者對細節的描摹,那些關於氣味、光綫和物件質感的文字,如同高清的特寫鏡頭,一下子就把人拉進瞭那個壓抑又充滿詩意的世界。主人公麵對機械化大工業的無力和抗爭,那種近乎偏執的對“意義”的追尋,讓人在掩捲長思時,不禁反思自己日常的瑣碎與追求。他不像傳統小說裏的英雄那樣轟轟烈烈,他的反抗是內化的,是沉默的,正是這種靜默的力量,纔更顯齣其悲劇性的深度。這本書的節奏很慢,像老式唱片機裏轉動的音軌,偶爾會有些不耐煩,但一旦適應瞭那種沉澱下來的韻律,就會發現每一個停頓、每一次重復,都是為瞭最終那個突如其來的頓悟做鋪墊。它沒有提供簡單的答案,隻是拋齣瞭更深層次的疑問,讓人久久不能釋懷。
评分這本書的魅力,很大程度上來自於它那種近乎儀式感的敘事結構。每一章節的推進,都像是在完成一個復雜的、充滿象徵意義的儀式。那些重復齣現的意象——舊機器的轟鳴聲、塵土飛揚的空氣、以及主人公對某種特定物品的珍視——它們不是簡單的背景裝飾,而是構建情節和人物心理的基石。我能感受到作者在遣詞造句上的極度考究,每一個形容詞都像是經過韆錘百煉纔被安置到位。這使得閱讀體驗變成瞭一種高度專注的、幾乎是冥想般的過程。我甚至會特意放慢語速,去品味那些精巧的句式結構,去感受文字排列組閤後産生的獨特韻律感。它提供瞭一種逃離現代社會快節奏信息流的途徑,讓人有機會重新連接到一種更緩慢、更深刻的思考方式上。看完之後,你不會急著去談論“劇情如何”,而是會迴味那些觸動你靈魂深處的瞬間,那些被文字精準捕捉到的模糊感受。
评分坦白講,我很少遇到像這樣對“孤獨”主題進行如此徹底和毫不妥協描繪的作品。它沒有試圖將孤獨浪漫化,也沒有將它過度戲劇化,而是將其呈現為一種無可逃避的生存狀態,一種知識分子在群體中的必然缺席。主人公的內心獨白,是全書最精彩的部分,那種對自身處境的清醒認知,夾雜著一絲無法自拔的宿命感,讓人心疼。作者對時代背景的把握也非常到位,那種從某種黃金時代隕落後,留下的精神真空,被刻畫得淋灕盡緻。這本書讀起來,需要讀者有相當的耐心去體味那種壓抑的氣氛,但迴報是豐厚的——它給予你一種理解“局外人”處境的全新視角。與其說是在讀一個故事,不如說是在參與一場深刻的、關於現代人精神睏境的哲學辯論,隻是這場辯論,隻有主人公一人在低聲自語。
评分這本書給我留下的最鮮明印象,是它那股子“反潮流”的勁頭。在充斥著喧囂和即時滿足的今天,它像是一個從舊世界裏走齣來的幽靈,固執地堅守著某種逝去的美學標準和精神追求。我喜歡它對“積纍”與“消耗”的對比,那種將一生心血傾注於無用之物的執著,反而成為對抗虛無最有力的武器。它的文本密度非常高,需要反復閱讀纔能領會全貌,但這種需要“努力”纔能獲取迴報的閱讀體驗,恰恰是當下稀缺的奢侈品。那些關於時間流逝和記憶沉澱的描寫,尤其精準地擊中瞭那些對物質生活之外有所渴求的人。它不是一本讀完就丟棄的書,而是一本你會想在不同人生階段反復翻閱,每次都會發現新層次的“老友”。它提供瞭一種寜靜的支撐,證明瞭在最喧鬧的世界裏,依然有人在默默守護著精神的堡壘。
评分赫拉巴爾那富有韌勁的語言
评分This poetically written novel conveys a powerful message: the indestructibility of books and knowledge.
评分欲重譯。
评分邂逅:2014.11.圖書館; 旅程:2014.11.-2014.12.5.; 地點:坡縣; 被瑣事與各種deadline拖纍沒能很好地細品。書中好多用詞也有些生澀。原以為標題說的是westlife唱的那種"maybe surrounded by/ a million people I/ still feel all alone”,但意嚮的來源卻是陪伴瞭主人公三十五年的碎紙機。故事本身雖是用一種很輕鬆的方式在講,但其本身卻過於沉重。
评分Doesn’t make so much sense for me....不隻是英文翻譯有些拗口還是我太沒文化…有一點存在主義的味道,一點點荒唐且有些漫無目的
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