{"id":4173,"date":"2017-02-15T01:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T01:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/bookclub\/cgi-bin\/wordpress\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2017-02-15T06:32:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:32:56","slug":"bohumil-hrabals-too-long-a-solitude-an-intimate-discussion-on-a-chill-and-rainy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=4173","title":{"rendered":"Bohumil Hrabal&#8217;s <i>Too Long a Solitude<\/i>: an intimate discussion on a chill and rainy night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The night was chill and rainy, but the crowd was intimate and eager to discuss <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stanford.io\/2jQuTth\"><strong>Bohumil Hrabal<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Too Long a Solitude\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/span>on Monday, Feb. 6.<\/p>\n<p>The dystopian novella, first published in samizdat in 1976, is a Czech classic. Acclaimed author <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlcl.stanford.edu\/people\/robert-pogue-harrison\"><strong>Robert Pogue Harrison<\/strong><\/a><\/span> moderate the discussion. The Stanford professor who is Another Look\u2019s director writes regularly for <em>The New York Review of Books<\/em> and hosts the popular talk show, <em>Entitled Opinions,<\/em>\u00a0joined by Stanford Prof. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dlcl.stanford.edu\/people\/hans-ulrich-gumbrecht\"><strong>Hans Ulrich \u201cSepp\u201d Gumbrecht,<\/strong><\/a><\/span> a European public intellectual and a prolific author, and German Prof. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/german.berkeley.edu\/author\/kfeldman\/\">Karen Feldman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>of the University of California, Berkeley, whose research explores the nexus between literature and philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tatra-in-Palo-Alto-e1487122892553.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4207\" title=\"Tatra in Palo Alto\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tatra-in-Palo-Alto-e1487122892553.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>Another Look fan <strong>David Russel<\/strong> from Stanford&#8217;s Radiology Department shared his 1951 Czechoslovakian car, a Tatraplan, also known as the T600, outside Encina Hall. According to David, \u201cThe car has always been a very positive attention-getter and it is fun introducing people to the third oldest car manufacturer (Mercedes and Peugeot are older) which happens to still be in business. Very few &#8216;Car People,&#8217; even the serious ones, are aware of Tatra&#8217;s longevity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our loyal Another Look aficionado and photographer\u00a0<strong>David Schwartz<\/strong>\u00a0recorded the discussion between\u00a0in the pictures below (and don&#8217;t forget to check out the podcast on the toolbar\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/\/?page_id=1553\"><strong>above<\/strong><\/a>).<span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09592.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4181\" title=\"DSC09592\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09592.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09583.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4183 aligncenter\" title=\"DSC09583\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09526.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4185\" title=\"DSC09526\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3042\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09526.jpg 3042w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09526-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09526-1024x517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09526-500x252.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3042px) 100vw, 3042px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4179\" title=\"DSC09600\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09600.jpg 726w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09600-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09600-364x300.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4177\" title=\"DSC09604\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3240\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09604.jpg 3240w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09604-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09604-1024x485.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09604-500x237.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3240px) 100vw, 3240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09621.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4175\" title=\"DSC09621\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2986\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09621.jpg 2986w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09621-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09621-1024x526.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSC09621-500x257.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2986px) 100vw, 2986px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night was chill and rainy, but the crowd was intimate and eager to discuss Bohumil Hrabal&#8216;s\u00a0Too Long a Solitude\u00a0on Monday, Feb. 6. The dystopian novella, first published in samizdat in 1976, is a Czech classic. Acclaimed author Robert Pogue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=4173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}