Abstract
The title of the monograph Bohumil Hrabal - An Author in Plural emphasizes one of the key topics of Hrabal's poetics: plurality of his work. This plurality has diverse reasons.
First, there are issues of the given time (variations of "Jarmilka" display an example discussed at length in chapter four). Bohumil Hrabal, however, accepts the pressure of that time (whose influence was present in editorial requirements that implied censorship) as a challenge and he starts to modify his author's gesture (he avoids naturalism, hints and strictures concerning temporary issues, and striking eroticism).
Hrabal's work "adapted" in this way was considered less valuable by contemporary critics (by Jan Lopatka primarily). However, it has been proven by a thorough analysis that such criticism is not fully rightful: Hrabal was not just erasing passages, he was remaking them (by using more subtle language, moved certain motives, clearly distinguished narrator's link from characters etc.) and gradually arrived at a new, more artistically refined posture of his writing.