SOURCE: Schubert, Peter Z. Review of Ich dachte an die goldenen Zeiten, by Bohumil Hrabal. World Literature Today 74, no. 1 (winter 2000) 192.

In the following review of the German translation of Proluky, Schubert discusses Hrabal's previous autobiographical works in translation and describes the content of Ich dachte an die goldenen Zeiten.

The recently deceased doyen of Czech literature, Bohumil Hrabal, added the Jaroslav Seifert Prize, the most prestigious Czech literary award, to his many honors, for the autobiographical trilogy with the summary title Svatby v domě (Weddings in the House; see WLT [World Literature Today] 63.1 p 129), written in 1984-85. The author looks here at his own life through the eyes of his wife Eliška and comments on it ironically. Svatby v domě, the first volume of the trilogy, is a continuous narration about the writer's meeting with Eliška in 1954 and their life until the wedding in 1957. Vita Nuova...