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Bohumil Hrabal and
Paul Wilson
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New Directions
Publication date
November 26, 2019
Pages
128
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN-13
9780811228954
ISBN-10
0811228959
Dimensions
0.60 by 5.70 by 8.30 in.
Weight
0.53 lbs.
Original list price
$17.95
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A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti | The Gentle Barbarian | Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming | Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister (New York Review Books Classics) | EEG: A Novel | The Republic: A Novel | The Topeka School: A Novel | Mr. Kafka and other tales from the time of the cult | Closely Watched Trains
Summaries and Reviews
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Despite the tender love he feels for the cats, especially his favorites who share his bed, there are moments of intense violence―as he controls the feline population explosion explosively.
All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is best seen as a confessional memoir, the chronicle of an author who becomes overwhelmed by his cats and his life, and is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas his indulgent love for the animals have created. In the end, All My Cats becomes a book about Hrabal’s relationship to nature, about the unlikely sources of redemption that come to him unbidden, like a gift from the cosmos―and about love.
A literary master’s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from “a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail” (Julian Barnes)
In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko, about an hour’s drive east of Prague. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and Kersko, where he wrote and tended to a community of feral cats. Over the years, his relationship to cats grew deeper and more complex, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer.Despite the tender love he feels for the cats, especially his favorites who share his bed, there are moments of intense violence―as he controls the feline population explosion explosively.
All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is best seen as a confessional memoir, the chronicle of an author who becomes overwhelmed by his cats and his life, and is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas his indulgent love for the animals have created. In the end, All My Cats becomes a book about Hrabal’s relationship to nature, about the unlikely sources of redemption that come to him unbidden, like a gift from the cosmos―and about love.
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