- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0099540622
- ISBN-13: 978-0099540625
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 0.9 x 19.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 118 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,074,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the most charming books on earth,
By Kai Weber (München) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Hardcover)
Imagine you are a young girl and an old man is standing on a ladder by a tree and picking cherries. He starts telling you events from his and his ancestors lives, and he won't stop for the next 2 or 3 hours. (This is the time you will need to read that book.) It is incredible how he switches from one topic to the next in an unpredictable way, but nevertheless this book is a single speech. It is written in ONE sentence. OK, Hrabal uses question and exclamation marks from time to time, but these do not really end a sentence, no, it goes on and on... Hrabal shows, that he has learned from James Joyce, this book is very much influenced by Joyces' streams of consciousness, but it is much more easy to read because of the bizarre humour of this old man on the tree. Read this book, and teach your mind how to dance...
2.0 out of 5 stars
RAMBLING OLD MAN,
By EriKa "E" (Iceland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Hardcover)
This was a brief and unique book. I picked it up after reading I Served the King of England, and though I would not necessarily recommend this book, I thought its style was commendable. There were approximately 100 pages in this book, all rambling chatter without any stopping points or punctuation. If you can tolerate such a thing, go ahead and read it. Otherwise, well, pass it up.
1.0 out of 5 stars
very slight,
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This review is from: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Hardcover)
A novel of one sentence, even a 20,000-word one? Although I can occasionally detect the sensibility that produced the masterpieces _I Served the King of England_ and _Closely Watched Trains_, I found this boring and a major rip-off. Perhaps if there had been some introduction I would feel less hostile. Along with _Too Long a Solitude_ it shows that even a book too short to be a book can seem interminable.
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