Murder ballads and other legends / by Bohumil Hrabal ; translated by Timothy West.

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"This translation is based on the first edition of Morytáty a legendy, published in 1968 by Československý spisovatel. The images that accompany each story are from woodcuts originally created for old broadside ballads and reproduced as illustrations for that first edition. Morytáty a legendy arrive...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Short stories. Selections. English
Main Author: Hrabal, Bohumil, 1914-1997 (Author)
Other Authors: West, Timothy, 1969- (Translator, Writer of introduction)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Czech
Language and/or Writing System:
Originally published in Czech as Morytáty a legendy.
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Three String Books, 2018.
Subjects:
Hrabal, Bohumil, > 1914-1997 > Translations into English.
Hrabal, Bohumil, > 1914-1997.
Short stories, Czech.
Translations.
Genre:
Translations into English.
Translations.
Physical Description:viii, 109 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Translator's introduction
  • A ballad written by my readers
  • The legend of Egon Bondy and Vladimírek
  • The ballad of a pig banquet
  • The legend of lammertz needles
  • A May murder ballad, or it was a quiet night in May
  • The legend of Julinka
  • The legend of Cain
  • The ballad of the queen of the night
  • A legend played on strings stretched between cradle and coffin
  • The ballad of the world travelers
  • A ballad on the murder of Anežka Hrůzová
  • Ballad of a public execution
  • Postscript.