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      Vita Nuova

      by Bohumil Hrabal
      Published
      Jun 2010
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      233
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      Vita Nuova is the second in a trilogy of memoirs written from the perspective

      of Bohumil Hrabal's wife, Elis.ka, about their life in Prague

      from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Communist repression of artists was

      at its peak.

       

      Hrabal's inimitable humor, which in Elis.ka's ruminations ranges

      from bawdy slapstick to cutting irony, is all the more penetrating for

      being directed at himself. Vita Nuova showcases Hrabal's legendary

      bohemian intellectual life, particularly his relationship with Vladimír

      Boudník. Hrabal creates a shrewd, lively portrait of Eastern European

      intellectual life in the mid-twentieth century.

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      First Edition Jun 2010 Northwestern University Press ISBN 0810125463
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