Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Miloš Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. Day after day as he watches trains fly by, he torments himself with the suspicion that he himself is being watched and with fears of impotency. Hrma finally affirms his manhood and, with a sense of peace and purpose he has never known before, heroically confronts a trainload of Nazis.
Milan Kundera called the novel "an incredible union of earthly humor and baroque imagination." After receiving acclaim as a novel, Closely Watched Trains was made into an internationally successful film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 1967. This edition includes a foreword by Josef Škvorecký.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: Undetermined
Subjects
20th century, Translations into English, Czech fictionShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1 |
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Published in
Evanston
Edition Notes
Donated by Eric Weaver.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created October 1, 2010
- 4 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
April 9, 2014 | Edited by Renee Buerkle | Added the Goodreads ID. |
August 11, 2011 | Edited by ImportBot | add ia_box_id to scanned books |
October 1, 2010 | Edited by ImportBot | Added new cover |
October 1, 2010 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Internet Archive item record. |