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Vladimír Merta

Born 1946 · Czechia

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    Magnesia Litera 2021 · Shortlist

    Popelnicový román

    Title translated by AI:“The Dustbin Novel”

    Vladimír Merta · 74 when first published

    Novel · 503 pages · Satire, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Hever, a partly autobiographical man of letters, wanders through a satirical caricature of Czech life before the 1989 revolution, just after it and today, among dissidents, longhairs, communist youth officials and secret police informers.