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我曾侍候過英國國王

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內容簡介 「當今我們最優秀的作家。」—— 米蘭．昆德拉（Milan Kundera）迪堤（Ditie）是一個身材矮小、卻懷抱遠大夢想的飯店侍者。在偷藏客人的零錢、回味在當地妓院度過的夜晚之餘，他總幻想著自己擁有——那些想像出來的——巨額財富。接著，荒謬的事情發生了：迪堤的夢想竟然開始成真。然而，正當他的混亂冒險帶領他前往越來越豪華的飯店時，在那些閃耀的餐廳大廳之外，二十世紀歐洲歷史的力量正隆隆向前推進。這是一個充滿喜劇天才的旋風、擁有重擊般敘事力量的故事。這是一個小人物在歐洲最黑暗的日子裡，起起落落（或落落起起）的傳奇。各界好評：「一部非凡且細膩的悲喜劇小說。」 —— 《紐約時報》「赫拉巴爾的筆觸躍動、輕盈……帶著奔放的幽默感與對細節沉靜溫柔的刻畫。」 —— 朱利安．拔恩斯（Julian Barnes）「一個充滿喜悅、流浪漢小說式的傳奇。它以類似『吹牛大王』式的冒險開場，最終卻收束於淚水與孤獨。」 —— 詹姆斯．伍德（James Wood）'Our very best writer today' Milan KunderaDitie is a pint-sized hotel waiter with big dreams.Between pocketing stolen change from unsuspecting customers and reminiscing on nights spent at the local brothel, he fantasises about his immense - and imagined - riches.Then, ludicrously, Ditie’s dreams start to become reality.Yet while his chaotic adventures lead him to ever more glamorous hotels, beyond the sparkling dining halls, the forces of twentieth-century European history march on.A whirlwind of comic genius, a gut-punch of narrative power, this is the story of one small man’s rise and fall – or fall and rise – against the shadowy backdrop of Europe’s darkest days.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL‘An extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel’New York Times‘Hrabal bounces and floats... with a gusting humour and a hushed tenderness of detail’Julian Barnes‘A joyful, picaresque story, which begins with Baron Munchausen-like adventures and ends in tears and solitude.’James Wood

作者介紹

作者介紹 Bohumil HrabalBohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital window never to return.Adam ThirlwellAdam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. The author of three previous novels, his work has been translated into thirty languages. His essays appear in the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, and he is an advisory editor of the Paris Review. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has twice been selected by Granta as one of their Best of Young British Novelists.

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最佳賣點 : 赫拉巴爾最狂放神采的傑作，以荒誕喜劇包裹大時代的悲涼，寫盡小人物的榮光與落寞。貪財又好色的小侍者迪堤，憑著機靈混進了上流社會，甚至娶回納粹旗手。他在金錢與慾望中起伏，卻敵不過歷史大輪的無情碾壓。

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