Vichřice a bubliny a jiné příběhy ze života - CDmp3 (Čte Jan Burian)

I was born in the middle of the last century. I experienced an ordinary childhood in the Hradčany apartment of my rather extraordinary parents – my father was a theater artist, a composer, but also a poet, writer, and theater director. In rare moments, he was even a singer and dancer, and even a painter... He died when I was about to move from the first grade to the second, and so I grew up with my mother, an actress, writer, and later also the director of a small touring theater called Maringotka. Although she always worked, she always found time for me. My relationship with my father was considerably more complicated, but not because he was apparently a genius artist while I was not; I was always rather attracted to and liked that about him. However, when the Russian tanks arrived almost simultaneously with my puberty, I stopped thinking, as he did, that communism liberates people," begins one of the texts by Jan Burian collected in this book, which follows previous book editions of regular essays originally written for Týdeník Rozhlas – namely, Přízrak v nákupním středisku (2009), Přímluva za dnešní dobu (2013), and Kocouří pohled (2016). While reading, we find ourselves with the author in places like Solopisky and many others across the country...