Hrabalova zeď

Very interesting

One of the monuments to the famous poet right at the exit of the metro "B" Palmovka. Bohumil Hrabal after graduating from grammar school in Brno he started to study at Charles University. However, he had to interrupt his studies due to the closure of universities in 1939. He finished them after the war. Although the title of JUDr. eventually won, as a lawyer he never made a living. Bohumil Hrabal made his first literary attempts in the field of poetry. He was interested in the cursed poets, the stream of Surrealism and Poetism. He wrote a lyrical collection of poems Lost Lane, Poems and Jewish Candlestick. Hrabal liked going to the Golden Tiger pub where he met his friends with beer. Beer also brought him into euphoria, thanks to which he was given ideas for other works. He brought his works to friends in the pub and wanted to know their opinion. This pub is still in operation and you can go there and sit where Bohumil Hrabal used to sit. When his wife Eliška died, Hrabal became depressed. He felt very lonely, so he surrounded himself with cats that made him lonelier. He spent the money just for the food for his cats. Hrabal spent the last days of his life at the hospital in Bulovka at the orthopedic ward. He died after falling from the window when he allegedly fed pigeons. To this day, his death has not been elucidated. There has been speculation that it might not only be an accident, but also suicide or even murder. He also introduced a new concept in the Czech literature - the beaver.

Světova 24 was the residence of Bohumil Hrabal and his wife Pipsy. Both the house and the writer remained only a nostalgic memory of the surrounding walls.

Bohumil Hrabal studied at the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague, but he could not complete his studies until 1946 - due to the closure of universities during the occupation. He became a professional writer only in 1963, until that time he worked for example as a collector of raw materials or as a stage set. In the 1970s he was unable to publish for several years and his texts were published in samizdat and in exile editions. He is the author of a number of books that almost immediately became part of the Czech cultural heritage. The collection of short stories Pearl Beads on the Bottom or The Babblers, the book Larks on the Thread and many others were just a harbinger of a later time. In 1976 he published Postřižiny, a commemorative prose. In 1978 Snowdrop Festival and in 1980 he published his book I Served the King of England. These three (and many others) became the basis of Czechoslovak literature and made their author the greatest star of our literature. Bohumil Hrabal had a major influence not only on Czech literature of the 20th century, but also on Czech film. The short story about admirable ordinary life Beads on the Bottom (dir. Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš, 1965) is generally perceived as one of the profile films of the so-called Czech New Wave. War Tragicomedy Closely Watched Trains (dir. Jiří Menzel, 1966) won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and Larks on the Thread (dir. Jiří Menzel, 1969), after having to lie in the Communist Vault, the Golden Bear for 32 years in Berlin. Other unforgettable films based on Hrabal's works include, at least, the films Cuttings (dir. Jiří Menzel, 1980), Snowdrop Celebrations (dir. Jiří Menzel, 1983) and Tender Barbarians (dir. Petr Koliha, 1989). The famous Too Noisy Solitude was filmed in 1994 by the Czech director Věra Caisová with Philippe Noiret in the lead role. The novel I Served the King of England was also cinematic.

Interesting place. I sort of imagine a beatnik monument. The impression of a car park that covers a part of the scene is a bit disturbing. Hrabal might have liked the beer sitting.