Description
The Brno stories undoubtedly represent one of the creative peaks of his work. What immediately captivates is the author's obsession with story, with narration. And these are not just any stories: in incredible, grotesque tumbles through time and space, the characters intertwine with their fate, sometimes in a distinctly comic way, at times harshly burlesque, and then almost metaphysically dark and mysterious. The author is indeed a Creator with a capital C, crafting his own worlds from "the fabric from which the world is woven" with true sovereignty and incredible inventiveness and bravura. Yet, he does so with a humble awareness of our limitations, or in the words of one of his heroes: "I know one thing for sure: we live in a world where we are often just unconscious intermediaries, mediators, mere couriers for messages that are unreadable and incomprehensible to us, just links in a chain about which we know nothing at all." With the Brno stories, Jiří Kratochvil truly becomes the Jorge Luis Borges of Czech literature. Milan Ohnisko
Information
Author: Kratochvíl Jiří, Kratochvil Jiří, Kratochvil Jiří
Publication date: October 1, 2015
Manufacturer: MARTIN REINER, Nakladatelství Druhé město
Genres: Czech and slovak fiction, Travel books and reports, Books, Fiction, Travel
Pages: 288
ISBN/EAN: 9788072273690