Kdy se dotknout dospělosti – Maléřová Zuzana (2016)

The title of the book "When to Touch Adulthood" hints at the questions the author poses to her characters and readers. The stories of young people making their first important decisions and naming the strong and complex moments they experienced and survived on their journey to adulthood. They are a quiet reflection of our own lives. Professor Miloš Horanský notes: "The first powerful life crashes. Scars on the soul and feelings, incomparably more devastating than those on the body. They shape, they deform. On the currently small stage of their lives, they are the characters of their little dramas, dramas, and touches of tragedy: Mom, Dad, Brother, Grandma, First Love, Friend, Stepmother, New Dad... Disappointment with oneself, alienation from loved ones, the death of the closest, the immense power of mutuality. Zuzana Maléřová excels in language and dialogue. This is her authorial strength. She does not bend the stories, does not embellish, she penetrates into people and teaches us to perceive them deeply and complexly, yet monolithically. Her searching wand is called empathy – that is great relational sensitivity. She never opens her portrayed characters loudly and immodestly wide, always stealthily and with the poetry of suggestion. This is the talent of a being before us, creating as a shy act of mystery. The photographic art of Vlad Bohdan is complementary with...