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This is a forlorn hope that someone out there might know the answer:
Back in the fifties, when I was a teenager, we lived in Prague for
some years. I remember reading a beautiful short story (in Czech),
which I think had been recently published. In the story, the narrator
is walking down the street late at night and through an open window he
hears someone playing Eine Kleine Nachtmusik on the piano. I vaguely
recall (this after all was half a century ago) that the wonderful
taste of spring onions comes into it too, or perhaps that was another
story in the same volume, or even another story that I was reading at
the same time. Does anyone happen to know who the author was? Or do
you perhaps know someone else who might know?
The story has recently come into my mind, through various mental
associations, and I remember how much I loved it at the time. Although
since I was a girl of 14 or 15, it might actually have been unbearably
sentimental!
Ellen.
Ellen Valle, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer (retired), Associated Researcher
Department of English, University of Turku
20014 Turku, Finland
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