Teorie podivnosti

The narrator, Ada Sabová, is a young scientist at the 'Institute for Interdisciplinary Human Studies' and in many ways a typical modern intellectual trying to balance love and career. She has been through a good deal in both, which has left her with a sarcastic, knowing view of the world, of others and of herself. While her colleague's son goes missing and the search goes on, she notes seemingly random events around her and senses a hidden order connecting them. Writing in diary form, she looks for an overarching definition, her 'theory of strangeness', mixing everyday detail, satirical scenes from Czech academia and essays touching on quantum theory and parallel universes, as she slowly leaves society's empty rules behind.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

357 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia

First published

2018 by Argo

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9788025726549 (original)