Czech writer from communist period. A collection of short stories about the absurdities of life under the communists - mixed with an obsession with women. The observations about life at that time remind me of some of the things Kundera writes about in his earlier books, but Hrabal doesn't have the biting wit, the crushing absurd humor, nor the depth of vision of Kundera. For my taste, he is also prone stylistic self-indulgence - tried another book too, but it was one long run-on sentence...
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