Description
This new work by award-winning poet Milan Děžinský is unusual in genre. It consists of an extensive mosaic of short prose pieces in which the bizarre merges with the everyday, the historical with the intimate, and the grotesque with the tragic. The author assembles stories that are found, overheard and entirely personal, creating a picture of a world revealed in all its absurdity and fragility. Snippets of internet stories, fragments of long-ago fates and seemingly banal moments of life combine to form a multilayered account of our existence. Stalin grows exotic plants, a lorry burns on a motorway and someone dreams of dying in the snow. A woman lives in an advertising sign on the roof of a supermarket and a boy can predict goals. There is also a bear trying to play the piano, and much more. Dust rises from a bedsheet, someone puts a wasp between your thighs in the kitchen, and a desperate little rabbit searches for a gentle owner. Playful and dark, this is inspiring reading in any case.
Information
Author: Děžinský Milan
Language: Czech
Publication date: May 26, 2026
Manufacturer: HOST - vydavatelství, s.r.o.
Genres: Czech and slovak poetry, Books, Fiction, Poetry and verse
Type: Hardcover book
Pages: 98
ISBN/EAN: 9788027529902