Dancing Lessons for The Advanced in Age

Bohumil Hrabal
1964

This one-sentence novella was, in my opinion, complete garbage. There’s a 30-page introduction which I’m guessing explains its merits, which were utterly lost on me, but I did not have the patience to read the introduction after finishing the book.

There’s no arc, no development of story or character, it is just a rambling, stream of consciousness recounting of moments in the narrator’s life. The writing was OK, maybe a bit better than OK, but generally the sentences did not have any kind of a wow factor.

Do not recommend.