Bohumil Hrabal: The Gentle Barbarian, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Gentle Barbarian
- Translation:
- Paul Wilson
- Publisher:
- New Directions Publishing Corporation, 03/2021
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811228589
- Item number:
- 8988520
- Volume:
- 128 Pages
- Weight:
- 159 g
- Format:
- 208 x 137 mm
- Thickness:
- 10 mm
- Release date:
- 2.3.2021
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's moving homage to Vladimír Boudník, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
The Gentle Barbarian takes us to the heart of Boudník's creative drive: his gift for infusing the objects and events of everyday life with transcendent magic, and his passion for sharing his ideas and his art with anyone willing to listen. Hrabal's anecdotal portrait includes another controversial figure in that early postwar Czech avant-garde: the poet Egon Bondy, the pen name and alter ego of a self-styled "left-wing Marxist" philosopher called Zbynek FiSer.
Hrabal's amazing memoir celebrates the creative spirits who strove to reject, ignore, or burrow beneath an artificial "revolutionary" fervor. Fueled by vast quantities of beer, emboldened by friendship, driven by a sense of their own destiny, they filled the intellectual and spiritual vacuum around them with manic humor, inspiration, and purpose, and in doing so, pointed the way to a kind of salvation.
Biography (Paul Wilson)
Paul Wilson, am 21. Oktober 1949 in Longbeach, Queensland, Australien, geboren, führt ein Leben voller Streß: Er ist Direktor einer Werbeagentur und Unternehmensberater für australische Konzerne. Sein Leben als Geschäftsmann hat ihn zum Fachmann in Sachen Streßbewältigung gemacht. Er hat schon Bücher zu diesem Thema veröffentlicht. Darüber hinaus gründete Paul Wilson 1995 das "Calm Centre" in Sydney, in dem Psychologen, Therapeuten und Künstler neue Entspannungstechniken erforschen. Paul Wilson ist Vater dreier Kinder, die immer ruhig sind. einiger australischer Konzerne, Direktor einer Werbeagentur und Vater von drei Kindern.
