Czechs in History Bohumil Hrabal
I am standing outside Palmovka metro station in Prague, in front of the mural which has been created in memory of Bohumil Hrabal, one of the greatest Czech writers of the last century. The mural covers the outside of the little house in which the author resided between 1950 and 1973, and where he wrote several of his early novels. Alongside a large portrait of the writer himself there is also a painting of his bookshelf, lined with works by Hrabal's favourite writers and artists: Freud, Kant, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Jiri Kolar...
Bohumil Hrabal
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