Tajný život institucí

A single working day in the life of a minor official against the backdrop of a small museum. Somewhere between travesty and political lament, the novel shows the banality of power in psychologically draining bureaucracies and the absurd world of institutions as a space of pressure, where the paranoia and autocracy of senior staff clash with the fear of subordinates and the revolutionary romanticism of perennial idealists. Institutions are magical, closed mechanisms in which everyone must keep confirming their place and loyalty to the hierarchy so as not to be exposed as unproductive, unreliable or rebellious. Even in a small team it soon turns out that overcoming general resignation and getting oneself and others to protest will be harder than it seemed.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

195 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia

First published

2025 by Malvern

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9788075305848 (original)