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Na betonovém podstavci je umísten betonový obdélníkový kvádr, v nemž je zasazena pametní deska. Na hnedém podkladu je pak text psán zlatým plastickým písmem.
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On the concrete base is placed rectangular concrete block, in which is placed commemorative plaque. On the brown background is written text with gold embossed lettering.
Nápis/Inscription:
JUDr. Bohumil Hrabal //
ceský spisovatel // (czech writer)
narozen 28. 3. 1914 // (born on March 28, 1914)
v dome c. 47 na Balbínove ulici // (in house No.47 on Balbínova street)
… a vuz pohrební s rakví stoupal k pumpe a tri domy dál, //
Tureckuv dum a Andrejskuv a Kocourkuv, //
a potom do pravého úhlu vzhuru posledních padesát metru na hrbitov, //
kde v té zatácce ješte jednou si kone odpocali, //
aby pak vytáhli jednoho jediného nebožtíka do brány hrbitova. //
Bohumil Hrabal //
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Bohumil Hrabal
Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.
Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.
He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.
His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kocenky").
He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the then-US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright on January 11th, 1994.
Several of his works were not published in Czechoslovakia due to the objections of the authorities, including The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Mestecko, kde se zastavil cas) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále).
He died when he fell from a fifth floor hospital where he was apparently trying to feed pigeons. It was noted that Hrabal lived on the fifth floor of his apartment building and that suicides by leaping from a fifth-floor window were mentioned in several of his books.
He was buried in a family grave in the cemetery in Hradištko. In the same grave his mother "Maryška", step father "Francin", uncle "Pepin", wife "Pipsi" and brother "Slávek" were buried.
He wrote with an expressive, highly visual style, often using long sentences; in fact his work Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) (Tanecní hodiny pro starší a pokrocilé) is made up of just one sentence. Many of Hrabal's characters are portrayed as "wise fools" - simpletons with occasional or inadvertent profound thoughts - who are also given to coarse humour, lewdness, and a determination to survive and enjoy oneself despite harsh circumstances. Political quandaries and their concomitant moral ambiguities are also a recurrent theme.
Along with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Capek and Milan Kundera - who were also imaginative and amusing satirists - he is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century. His works have been translated into 27 languages.
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