Editing Bohumil Hrabal (section)

==Death==
[[Image:Hrabal tomb.jpg|thumb|Hrabal's grave]]
Hrabal died in February 1997 after falling from a window on the fifth floor of [[Bulovka Hospital]] in Prague. Initially, there were reports that he fell while attempting to feed pigeons,<ref name="lidovky">{{cite news |date=3 February 2012 |title=Hrabal zemřel před 15 lety. 'U tygra by měla hořet svíčka' |publisher=Lidovky.cz |agency=ČTK |url=http://www.lidovky.cz/hrabal-zemrel-pred-15-lety-u-tygra-by-mela-horet-svicka-p0z-/lide.aspx?c=A120202_171331_lide_glu |access-date=6 September 2016}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> though these were rejected by friends including his translator, [[Susanna Roth]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hofmann |first=Michael |date=2022-07-21 |title=Goofing Off |language=en |volume=44 |work=London Review of Books |issue=14 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n14/michael-hofmann/goofing-off |access-date=2022-08-25 |issn=0260-9592}}</ref> who angrily dismissed the reports as a way of censoring Hrabal even in death.<ref name=":1" /> The story was later publicly renounced by professor Pavel Dungl, Bulovka's chief physician.<ref name="Reflex" /><ref name=":4">{{Citation |title=Požehnaný prokletý básník Bohumil Hrabal - Příběhy slavných |publisher=Česká televize |url=https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10123383458-pribehy-slavnych/498223100031001/ |language=cs |access-date=2022-09-21}}</ref> First Roth<ref name=":4" /> and later Tomáš Mazal noted that [[suicide]] recurs as a theme throughout his work,<ref name=":1" /> and both Dungl and Mazal said that early in the morning on the day of his death, Hrabal mentioned to Dungl an "invitation" he received in his dream from a dead poet and painter, [[Karel Hlaváček]], who was buried in a cemetery next to the hospital. Some years later, Professor Dungl said he had no doubts about Hrabal's death being a suicide.<ref name="Czech TV">{{cite news|last1=Reportéři ČT|title=Ukradená sebevražda pábitele|url=http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/1142743803-reporteri-ct/214452801240013/obsah/317664-ukradena-sebevrazda-pabitele|access-date=6 September 2016|work=iVysílání|agency=Czech TV|date=31 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="Reflex">{{cite news|last1=Hrubý|first1=Dan|title=Lékař, který léčil Bohumila Hrabala: Jsem přesvědčen, že spáchal sebevraždu|url=http://www.reflex.cz/clanek/zpravy/55485/lekar-ktery-lecil-bohumila-hrabala-jsem-presvedcen-ze-spachal-sebevrazdu.html|access-date=6 September 2016|publisher=Reflex|date=26 March 2014}}</ref> He was buried in the cemetery of [[Hradištko (Nymburk District)|Hradištko]] near Kersko. According to his wishes, he was buried in an oak coffin marked with the inscription "Pivovar Polná" (Polná Brewery), the brewery where his mother and stepfather had met.