Teď něco ze života

The author recalls her life with Přemysl Blažíček (1932–2002), one of the leading Czech literary scholars, from their first meeting through forty years of marriage to his last illness, and uses it to reflect on her own life and on public events from the 1940s onward. Episodes come in no fixed order: her childhood and youth in Bechyně, university in the mid-1950s, the early years of marriage, their children growing up in Prague, the Institute of Czech Literature, her own illness, friends and colleagues. What sets the order is the strength of each memory rather than the calendar.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

453 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, 1940s–2000s

First published

2012 by Triáda

Author's age

79 when first published

ISBN

9788087256879 (original)