"Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity."
--New Yorker
"A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership."
--Kirkus Reviews
This collection of the earliest prose by one of literature's greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Mar chal put it, "the moment when...