Yo que he servido al rey de Inglaterra

Synopsis of Yo que he servido al rey de Inglaterra

In 'I Served the King of England', Bohumil Hrabal presents us with a novel that is a literary genre in itself. With a joyful and Rabelaisian story, the Czech author reconciles the routine and the poetic, the mediocre and the carnivalesque. The story narrates the tribulations of a young waiter's apprentice who aspires to success and social recognition, but who, like Kafka's heroes, seems condemned to failure. Through the different stages of training and learning, the protagonist discovers the everyday absurd in a picaresque, tragic and humorous story that caricatures the history of Czechoslovakia until the arrival of communism.