Pravidla směšného chování

Three linked stories make up a private chronicle of the narrator's life. First he goes paragliding with two younger friends and, dangling half-helpless in the harness, finds himself drifting back into his past. The heart of the book is his parting from his dying father, and it ends with a trip to the Danube Delta on the Black Sea, where he means to leave his father's ashes and perhaps find himself. Even in grief he keeps an ironic distance, a man of the generation that came of age under late communism and now drifts, unanchored, through a midlife hangover.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

133 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, Romania

First published

2010 by Argo

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9788025702628 (original)