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May 30, 2018 he won international acclaim for such books as i served the king of england and too loud a solitude. I served the king of england bohumil hrabal read literature. At the beginning of the narrative ditie is a busboy at a hotel. First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, i. Bohumil hrabal s i served the king of england is one of those books and, in my humble opinion, it must be one of the great comic novels of the 20th century, along with the good soldier schweik, the tin drum, the master and margarita and the autumm of the patriarch. I served the king of england by bohumil hrabal, paperback. Bohumil hrabals i served the king of england is a beautiful, sparse, simply told story about a little man named ditie.
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