Zpráva posledního člověka – Pehe Jiří (2025)

Theo wanted to voluntarily leave the world, but fate is playing a strange game with him. The land has been struck by an inexplicable disaster, and he has seemingly become the last person on the planet. Or has he? Equipped with the technical knowledge of an engineer and an amateur pilot, he sets out to search for whether anyone else has survived besides him. The world is transforming before his eyes, nature is reclaiming what humanity took from it. If you find yourself alone in the world, everything seems to be at your disposal: stores full of goods, any means of transportation, abandoned cities, and romantic beaches. But what is the point of it all?

The hero of Jiří Pehe's new novel can survive in this world, but he increasingly realizes that without other people, the rules change, and his search for survivors turns into a contemplation of the meaning of human history. Theo questions what from our civilization had any significance and what is worth preserving. Visual art, literature, religion, philosophy, music, history. Everything is either created by humans or somehow relates to humanity. But at the moment when Theo can take the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and load any number of artifacts from the Vatican Museums onto a truck, he is in doubt: do these things still have any value in themselves? And what...