Author: Bohumil Hrabal

Cites

• Gustave Flaubert (1)
  • IN: The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (1976) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: La Bovary, c'est moi
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Viola Fišerová (1)
  • IN: Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult (1965) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A milk shop could sell its wares even in the dark To begin living for oneself is greater than birth Disbelief can be understood as indiscriminate attention In any case, I'm advertising a house I no longer wish to live in.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Czech Republic
• Theodor Gomperz (1)
  • IN: Harlequin's Millions (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The absurdity of the game. A child sets up his toy figures only to knock them down again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Czech Republic
• Ladislav Klíma (1)
  • IN: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Not only may one imagine that what is higher derives always and only from what is lower; one may imagine that--given the polarity and, more important, the ludicrousness of the world--everything derives from its opposite: day from night, frailty from strength, deformity from beauty, fortune from misfortune. Victory is made up exclusively of beatings.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Czechia
• Goethe (1)
  • IN: Too Loud a Solitude (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Only the sun has a right to its spots.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Vita Nuova (1991) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What is meant to hang will not drown even if water should overrun the gallows
    FROM: Folk saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Martin Heidegger (1)
  • IN: Vita Nuova (1991) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Poetry is an aspect of thought beauty is an aspect of truth
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany