Živé duše – Procházková Lenka (2017)

A collection of "politically incorrect" texts published by Lenka Procházková from January 2016 to April 2017 on independent websites. In addition to interviews, commentaries, reports, essays, and one bonus fairy tale, the book includes the author's speeches at demonstrations. The urgent tone of these outdoor speeches influenced the Senate's decision, which rejected Lenka Procházková's nomination (a signatory of Charter 77) to the Council of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in a secret vote without debate. The concluding text of the book, Living Souls, is a transcript of the speech in which Lenka Procházková told the senators that researchers often avoid many topics in their study of totalitarian regimes. "I also told them that if I were elected to the Council, I would initiate research on the topic: The Influence of Media on the Destruction of Democracy." However, such an approach did not pass in the democratically elected Senate. Lenka Procházková comments on her non-election to the Council of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes by saying, "I understand that I don't fit in there. The 'honorable' Institute apparently studies totalitarian practices not to warn against them but to adopt them. It is good that the senators rejected me; I would unnecessarily ruin my nerves in a hostile environment. My place is at the writing desk and at the microphone in the squares, from where I can...