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Bezig met laden... Closely Watched Trains (European Classics) (origineel 1965; editie 1995)door Bohumil Hrabal (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkZwaarbewaakte treinen door Bohumil Hrabal (1965)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Hoed af voor dit debuut van de Tsjechische schrijver Hrabal (1914-1997). In een kort verhaal, amper 70 bladzijden, weet hij de beklemmende sfeer van het oorlogseinde, 1945, perfect onder woorden te brengen. Het duurt even voor we de verschillende verhaallijnen aan elkaar krijgen, een leuke vormelijke verwijzing naar de door elkaar lopende sporen in het rangeerstation waar het jonge hoofdpersonage seingever is, en waar treinen van de Duitse bezetter af en toe als schimmen doorsuizen. Diens koortsige monoloog, met ironische en absurdistische toetsen, verbindt zijn coming-of-age (hij heeft net een mislukte zelfmoordpoging achter de rug) achteloos met de heroïek van het verzet tegen de Nazi’s. Hrabal vervalt nergens in goedkope retoriek, integendeel, de donkere en beklemmende sfeer van dit heel condense verhaal blijft aan je ribben plakken. ( ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closely_Watched_Trains http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060802/ Zie ook: Ostre sledované vlaky - Closely watched trains (1967) in 1001 Films - De meest spraakmakende films aller tijden; uitgeverij Librero pag.486-487.
This slim book, 91 pages of strikingly wide margins, constitutes no more than a novella, but is full of incident. It also treats of those novelistic big issues, love, sex and death. In early 1945 various railway workers play out their lives against a backdrop of military and passenger train movements through their strategic location, a small railway station in Bohemia. The novella’s denouement takes place against the fire-bombing of Dresden lighting up the night sky. Graduate trainee Miloš Hrma comes from a long line of eccentrics, one of whom tried to stop the German invasion in 1939 by the power of hypnosis alone - before being crushed by a tank. In his private life Miloš is troubled in his relationship with his girlfriend Masha by a lapse of physical prowess at a crucial moment. The station is a surprisingly sexualised environment – the Station Master’s oilcloth covered couch has been ripped in several places during an illicit liaison and Dispatcher Hubrićka has used the station’s official stamps scandalously - to imprint the female telegraphist’s buttocks. The feel of the passages dealing with these aspects of people’s lives is akin to magic realism but of course along with these there are always in the background the train movements, which the workers keep under close surveillance, to consider. I know no Czech and consequently have not read the original so cannot say how true it was, but the translation read easily. A slight familiarity with German or Latin may occasionally help the reader with the few quotes from those languages which are included but the context makes most of them obvious and the important one is later rendered in English. In Closely Observed Trains Hrabal has written a fine novella, an impressive work about how life carries on even in trying circumstances - and also an observation on the futility and arbitrariness of war. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Is opgenomen inHeeft de bewerking
For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; and the awesome scandal of Dispatcher Hubicka's gross misuse of the station's official stamps upon the telegraphist's anatomy. Beside these, Milos's part in the plan for the ammunition train seems a simple affair. CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS, which became the award-winning Jiri Menzel film of the 'Prague Spring', is a classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism which fully justifies Hrabal's reputation as one of the best Czech writers of today. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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