Mr. Kafka: And Other Tales from the Time of the Cult

Wonderful stories of Communist Prague by “the masterly Bohumil Hrabal” (The New Yorker)

Never before published in English, the stories in Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult were written mostly in the 1950s and present the Czech master Bohumil Hrabal at the height of his powers. The stories capture a time when Czech Stalinists were turning society upside down, inflicting their social and political experiments on mostly unwilling subjects. These stories are set variously in th...