SOURCE: Lee, Pearl Angelika. Review of Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, by Bohumil Hrabal. World Literature Today 74, no. 2 (spring 2000): 437-38.

In the following review, Lee praises Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, commenting on the skill of its translator and on Hrabal's evocation of the ambiance of a bygone era.

The fact that we are presently reviewing a work which first appeared thirty-six years ago, in 1964 [Taneční hodiny pro starší a pokročilé], should be interpreted as a tribute to not only a great writer but also a great translator of the twentieth century. Readers already familiar with Bohumil Hrabal will recognize in this short tale, accompanied by six elegant illustrations by Vladimir Suchanek, many of the literary traits and themes from his other works. It's all here again: sex, beer, war, reflections on the body (as a tribute to the “European Renaissance”). Readers...