Cesty s Bohumilem Hrabalem Mazal Tom (2025)

This Czech-language literary guide takes readers to various places in Bohemia and Moravia connected with the life and work of the internationally renowned writer Bohumil Hrabal. Travellers and local readers visit his birthplace in Brno-idenice, the breweries in Poln and Nymburk where he spent his childhood, and the legendary Na Hrzi (Eternity) lane in Prague, where house no. 24 once stood and where, in the early 1950s, Hrabal shared a bohemian period with the poet Egon Bondy and graphic artist Vladimr Boudnk. The atmosphere of the former Libe outskirts can still be found in the surrounding landscape, while visitors can pause in reflection before the surviving synagogue and the building of the former Svt automat restaurant. The guide also visits the cottage settlement in Kersko and its surroundings, as well as the pubs frequently visited by Hrabal and his friends, from ordinary establishments to famous venues such as U Pinkas and the world-renowned U Zlatho tygra beer hall, where in 1994 he drank beer with Vclav Havel and US President Bill Clinton. The book includes numerous photographs of Hrabal and previously unpublished documents from the authors archive. It therefore serves not only as a guide but also as a literary work connected with Hrabals collected writings and monograph, a reach reflected in its Polish and Hungarian editions.