Elsa and Amanita

Sylva Fischerová’s prose novel is set in Prague in the 1980s, but it is not a straightforward portrayal of notorious events and phenomena. The author evokes the atmosphere of the period from within, through the characters and their dialogues and feelings, inserting diary entries, descriptions of dreams or excerpts from readings. The realistic gradually gives way…

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BIZOM, or, Service and Mission

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Jiří Bizom, who’s just turned fifty years old, creates games – but neither board games nor computer games: his games are aimed at life, and you can play them in banal everyday situations. Bizom, the son of a Jew from Budapest, lives in present-day Prague, making his way as an employee in a grant foundation.…

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