Why I Write?Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabals later virtuosity. New Yorker A collection of formative fiction from a writer whose work has earned comparison with Joyce and Beckett. . . . Early work from a writer who merits a larger readership. Kirkus Reviews This collection of the earliest prose by one of literatures greatest stylists captures, as scholar Arnault Marchal put it, the moment when Hrabal discovered the magic of writing. Taken from the period when