When I spend a whole period of time reading a literary work, I will accompany a BGM that matches the atmosphere of the work, read Hrabar's "Pearl on the Bottom", and I put a song "Prague Square".
Although Bohumir Hrabar worked on poetry, prose, and short stories from a young age, and published in periodicals, it was not until 1963 that he was forty-nine years old when he was officially published by the publishing house The Pearl of the Bottom. As soon as the book came out, it caused great repercussions. It tells more than a dozen story fragments of ordinary people in the form of conversation and dialogue, and dozens of characters in the story seem to be right next to us, making people read extra kindly and blowing a breeze through the relatively quiet literary world at that time.
In the book "Pearls at the Bottom", people are under the extreme darkness and external shackles of life, but they are not willing to go with the flow and fight against fate with a ridiculous posture. Sometimes like madmen, like clowns, they are adept at using humor, even black humor, to greatly decorate their every day, even the most tragic of their days. With his unique exploratory narrative, Hrabar shows the romance and sublimity of the spiritually imprisoned desolation, full of warm love for life.
Hrabar is a 20th-century Czech literary master with the same name as Milan Kundera, known as the "King of Sorrow in Czech Literature", a world-renowned Czech national treasure writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994. His works have been published in more than thirty countries, and his works include "Too Noisy Loneliness", "I Have Served the King of England", "Pearls of the Bottom", "Barbidale" and so on. Many of his works have been adapted to the big screen, winning several Oscars and the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Hrabar had a rough life, and although he was born into a solid family, he spent his life inseparable from the people at the bottom. He has worked as a notary assistant, warehouseman, train dispatcher, steelmaking worker, waste paper recycling station packer and other various jobs, and has come into contact with many obscure ordinary people, he sympathizes with them, loves them, and is full of respect for them. Hrabar's works are based on the "Dharma Wanderer" life of these ordinary Czech people, and are pure Czech taste.
Milan Kundera said of Hrabar: "The greatest writer of our time. ”
Hrabar said:
The greatest heroes are the ordinary people who live ordinary lives every day, the people I know in steel mills and other places of work, the people who do not fall into chaos and panic on the garbage heaps of society, the people who realize that "failure is the beginning of victory".
Hrabar used his words to leave a valuable spiritual wealth to future generations.