Varia obscura - Sborník k 50. Narozeninám Jaroslava Tulky + CD – group of authors (2019)

Where are the times when anthologies published for the anniversaries of prominent personalities were awaited as literary events? Perhaps not as far away as we might think! The anthology Varia obscura, published for Jaroslav Tulka's 50th birthday, definitely belongs to this category. True to its name, it contains contributions of various focuses and remarkable breadth: paintings, drawings, and graphics (including K. Knotek, N. Hedwic Mainerová, P. Bendová) and illustrations of literary works, both original (O. Škochová) and foreign (D. Souček, K. Konarovská, L. Straková); original literary creations in poetry (including S. Fischerová, R. Antropius, O. Bergman), prose (A. Boučková, P. Šourek, etc.) and drama (B. Herz), as well as commented translations from Finnish literature (M. Kovář – J. Cajanus), Hungarian (K. Horváthová – A. Szerb), German (J. Starý – W. Müller, J. Vondra – Wolfram von Eschenbach), Korean (V. Glomb – Stories from the Life of Prostitute Čin-i); philosophical scientific texts (K. Novotný on corporeality and affectivity in E. Levinas, I. Landa on Hegel's aphorism) and historiographical works, with first editions of surprising documents (M. Ducháček – an anonymous letter addressed to J. Pekař, O. Vojtěchovský – a record of an audience with J. Broz Tito). The result is a book that...