Jan Němec

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• Možnosti milostného románu

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  Magnesia Litera 2020 · Shortlist

  Možnosti milostného románu

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Possibilities of a Love Novel”

  Jan Němec · 38 when first published

  Novel · 416 pages · Love, Autofiction

  AIAI-generated summary:A writer looks back on a great love affair and the six years of the relationship that followed, driven by an obsessive need to understand why it ended.

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  Magnesia Litera 2014 · Shortlist

  A History of Light

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  Jan Němec · 32 when first published

  Novel · 412 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Told to its hero in the second person, the life of the photographer František Drtikol unfolds from a silver-mining town in Bohemia through art-nouveau Munich to the bohemian Prague of the interwar republic.