The one-storey brick building has a usable area of 79 square meters, the garden occupies another almost 3.5 thousand square meters, the dry facts of the advertisement state “investment opportunity”. Although the information about the sale does not mention that it is a former cottage of Bohumil Hrabal, the value of the property should include that it is associated with this writer. Behind the local forests and more than twenty cats, he came here from Prague in peace and daily.
Hrabal’s legacy was probably reflected in the price of the Kerská cottage. “One thousand crowns per meter is usually sold here, so it should be 3.5 million crowns,” estimates one of the owners in the settlement, Martin Bíža.
The author of Pábitelů, Too Noisy Solitude or Closely Watched Trains bought a cottage with his wife Eliška, called Pipsi, in 1965 for an advertisement from two older sisters – teachers. The Hrabals remained childless, and the chat writer bequeathed the son of Elijah’s neighbors, who took care of him until an unexpected end in February 1997. The famous storyteller died as a result of falling from a hospital window, suicide could not be confirmed, but not ruled out.
The Postřižin region and the Snowdrop Festival
Kersko became both his second home and his inspiration. In the title story from the Snowdrop Festival ensemble, he writes about it: “The air is dry but healthy here, because Kersko, a forest city, is also divided and numbered according to the plan of New York “
After all, Hrabal liked to incorporate into his books the stories he saw and heard around him. Neighbors from the settlement get to know each other in Franco, who finally took his family on a trip, in Lelim, who conveniently exchanged Krajinka in a winter guise for a new companion, or in hunters who set an eternal dilemma by training a wild boar: with cabbage. The book The Snowdrop Festival was even more widely known by Jiří Menzel’s film of the same name.
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