Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: narrator Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons pre Advanced in Age je všetky tieto a viac. Speaking to skupina slnku ženu, ktorá rýdza him milovníkov pascu, tento starobylé roué tells story svojho života - alebo na úžas unburdens himself of lifetime's worth of stories. Toto sú learn of amatérske skúšky (and humiliations), scandals both private and public, of military adventures a domácich feuds, čo things boli ako "v dennej monarchy" a ako sa chýlil v singe. Ako kniha tumbles reštlessly forward, a komické tone taky na darker shadings, sme realizovali sme listening to človeka hovoriť s mnou z desperation as exuberance. Gróf, jeden z veľkých českých writers of twentieth century, ako well as inveterate haunter of Prague's pubs a futbalové štádiá, developed a unikátny method ktorých he termind "palavering," whereby characters gab and soliloqui with. Part drunken boast, part soul-rending confession, part metaphysical poem na prírode lásky a času, tento astonishing novel (ktorých unfolds v single monumental sentence) shows why he has admiration of such writers as Milan Kundera, John Banville, and Louise Erdrich.