Je to jízda: O svobodě na kole ve městě i krajině – Buddeus Ondřej (2021)

This is not a collection of essays. It is not a declaration of love. It is not even a practical guide. It is all of these things together. For a book about cycling in the city deserves to soar and have an approach as fresh as a brisk wind at your back. This is not about kilometers, but about new horizons. The team consists of twelve personalities from various fields. They deal with literature, visual arts, sociology, film, architecture, fashion, and molecular biology. For them, cycling means joy, freedom, and passion. They ride to work, clear their heads, or find that riding in the urban hustle and beyond is always a new adventure. From the saddle, they discover unexpected views of the landscape that surrounds us. And they can write about it with the same energy with which they conquer cobblestones, this uphill street, and the queues of creeping cars. This is a book of insights and unforeseen connections. And also the experience of dearly paid lessons learned through calloused hands and bruised bones. The editor of the book is writer Ondřej Buddeus (1984), holder of the Magnesia Litera for the children's book Head in Head and the Jiří Orten Award. He invited literary historians Jan Wiendl and Markéta Holanová, literary critic Eva Klíčová, architecture theorist Adam...