He affected the use of long sentences; in fact his works Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) (1964) and Vita Nuova (1987) consist of one single sentence.
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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé), Prague: CS, 1964.
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Closely Observed Trains: A Film by Jiří Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal, London: Lorrimer Publishing Ltd, 1971
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I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále), Prague: Petlice, 1971 (secret anti-Communist publishing house)
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Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé (Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age) followed in 1964 and Ostře sledované vlaky (Closely Observed Trains) in 1965.
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Too Loud a Solitude (Příliš hlučná samota), Prague: Ceska expedice 1977 (secret anti-Communist publishing house); Exile edition: Index, Koeln, 1980.
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He met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright at U zlatého tygra on 11 January 1994.
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I Served the King of England, translated by Paul Wilson, New York: Vintage International, 1990
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Too Loud a Solitude, translated by Michael Henry Heim, San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990
The film is an evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.
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It is based on the novel Postřižiny by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal.
In 1971 he took part in the birthday celebration of Bohumil Hrabal.
Apart from Škvorecký and Salivarová themselves, they were: Bohumil Hrabal, Jan Křesadlo, Alan Levy, and Erazim Kohák.
He admitted that in his writing he was influenced by the literature of Céline, Hrabal, Burroughs and Pynchon.
The region is known for the number of historical, cultural and natural monuments: including open air museums in Přerov nad Labem, Ostrá and Kouřim; a famous spa in Poděbrady, the home of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana in Jabkenice, a museum of butter in Máslovice, and the museum of writer Bohumil Hrabal in Kersko.
Its name comes from Bohumil Hrabal's book Postřižiny (translated into English as Cutting It Short), later (1980) made into a well-known film by Jiří Menzel.