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Dittie, a busboy with an inferiority complex and a driving ambition to become a millionaire, quickly rises to become a head waiter, but the respect he craves continues to allude him. When he marries a Nazi gym teacher, the Czechs despise him even more, while the Germans barely tolerate him. Rare stamps taken from wealthy Jews make his dream come true after the war, but his first-class hotel is soon nationalized by the Communists and he ends his life in poverty and isolation writing his memoirs. As is typical of Hrabal's work, the novel is full of zany characters whose antics range from supremely entertaining to bizarrely tragic.
敏感的小個(gè)子餐廳服務(wù)員，一心想成為“侍候英國(guó)國(guó)王”那樣的人物。他兢兢業(yè)業(yè)地辛勤工作，盡管已經(jīng)掙了多得能蓋住整個(gè)地板的錢，卻不時(shí)遭到不公的貶抑和誣蔑。他想盡辦法要與別人比個(gè)高低，夢(mèng)想自己成為百萬(wàn)富翁，好讓別人對(duì)他刮目相看。后來(lái)他終于如愿以償，然而諷刺的是，這個(gè)愿望竟然是在拘留所里實(shí)現(xiàn)的……作者從一個(gè)不起眼的餐廳服務(wù)員的眼光，審視納粹法西斯罕為人知的人種培育中心、傷員療養(yǎng)院等。沒(méi)有激越的情緒或夸張的語(yǔ)言，全書(shū)以平靜溫和的語(yǔ)調(diào)，緩緩訴說(shuō)著大時(shí)代下小人物的悲喜，卻仍能感受到撼人的戲劇張力。
About Author
Bohumil Hrabal, Czech novelist and short story writer, whose tales show the influence of Surrealism, Dada, and psychoanalysis. Bohumil Hrabal gained international fame with Closely Watched Trains (1965), set in German occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The novel was also made into a highly successful film, directed by Jiri Menzel. Hrabal's writings were banned after the Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. Hrabal died at the age of 82. He fell from a window at the Bulovka hospital in Prague.
博胡米爾·赫拉巴爾，捷克著名小說(shuō)家，作品大多描寫(xiě)普通、平凡、默默無(wú)聞、被拋棄在“時(shí)代垃圾堆上的人”。他對(duì)這些人寄予同情與愛(ài)憐，并且融入他們的生活，以文字發(fā)掘他們心靈深處的美，刻畫(huà)出一群平凡又奇特的人物形象。1965年出版的作品《嚴(yán)密監(jiān)視的列車》使他獲得世界聲譽(yù)，被改編成的同名電影也大獲好評(píng)和成功。1968年蘇聯(lián)軍隊(duì)入侵捷克斯洛伐克，赫拉巴爾由于曾支持“布拉格之春”改革運(yùn)動(dòng)，而被列入黑名單。令人不解的是，他從醫(yī)院的窗口墜樓身亡，享年82歲。
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