All our reporter knew about Kral before she met him was that he had translated Hung-lou meng. She had no idea of his other achievements, so the interview held some of the excitement of a hunt for buried treasure.
在見到他之前，從能蒐集到的有限資料中，只知道他是諸多捷克漢學家中翻譯紅樓夢的一位，直到見了面，才曉得他有這麼傳奇的過去，及不遜於西方漢學大儒的研究成果。訪談過程是在挖到寶藏般的微微興奮中進行的。