Nějaké ženy a jacísi muži - Příběhy a situace – Zemančíková Alena (2023)

Women and men in this book stand at the crossroads of their lives. The part they have lived so far, filled with hopes, striving, and a desire for fulfillment, has come to an end. What lies ahead will be much harder. They will truly need to live it; there will be no hiding behind caring for children, studying, or milestones on the path to success; all of that now just needs to be maintained. Women know how to do this; they are trained in organization. The stories of women are narratives about seeking balance between life’s practicalities and wobbly desires and emotions. About the suppressed soaring of the heart, about falling into the role of helpers for minimal reward. Sometimes, the last solid point in everyday chaos is a cat, sometimes a long-ago athletic prowess, sometimes a pendant to which a woman ascribes mysterious power, sometimes a family archive. In stories about women, men naturally appear. In stories about men, their protagonists seek happiness in the second half of life, as if they wanted to do without love in it. As if they were looking for a place that would be above all else and from where they could see the world clearly, like from a meteorological station tower or from the control desk in a theater or from a secret spot behind a chimney. In stories about men, women naturally appear as well. Stories about 'some women and some men' are...