The Gentle Barbarian

Bohumil Hrabal

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The Gentle Barbarian

Bohumil Hrabal
FictionNDP1492First published 2021

The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal’s moving homage to Vladimír Boudník, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Gentle Barbarian...

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The Gentle Barbarian

Bohumil Hrabal

NEW DIRECTIONS