Točité věty

The narrator, close to the author herself, summons her dead friends, the translator and poet Bohumila Grögerová and the artist Adriena Šimotová, back from the underworld and from oblivion, along with little-known, unknown and sometimes invented people whose stories echo her own. Her sentences branch and coil into a cycling, layered narrative in which the present mingles with memories, the fates of the living keep meeting those of the long dead, the world of myth is projected onto real places and events, and everyday scenes alternate with allegorical and dreamlike ones. Alongside friendship, the book reflects on memory, on the last things and on how a text comes into being.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

375 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia

First published

2015 by Malvern

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9788075300034 (original)