Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) was born in Moravia and started writing poems under the influence of French surrealism. In the early 1950s, he began to experiment with a stream-of-consciousness style, and eventually wrote such classics as Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel), The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, and Too Loud a Solitude. He fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn’t Stop

The Czech Writer Remembers What It Was to
Fall in Love with Literature

December 6, 2019 By Bohumil Hrabal

Of Bohumil Hrabal’s Six Loves, Guess How Many Were Cats?

The Answer is Almost All of Them

November 26, 2019 By Bohumil Hrabal

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