Román – Barényiová Olga (2015)

Annotation. Who reads annotations? Everyone wants or has to read them. Booksellers, teachers, journalists. Even search engines. Editors dislike writing them. Authors, it depends. Writing a book is not the same as writing an annotation. Do the characters in the book read the annotation? What do they think about it? What might Viktor and Pavla think about the Novel? Could they be jealous of each other? The annotation mentioned me first! Or could the author be jealous? That the characters are mentioned more emphatically in the annotation and the work than she is? Can a character act differently than the author would want? Can one love a third and act against the will not to love? We should not overlook the author. What do we know about her? Can a German author writing in Czech choose a "more suitable time" for the publication of a fundamentally experimental yet very reader-friendly novel than spring 1945? To end such a successful series of fictional and dramatic works and then, so to speak, disappear into history? In the history of literature, at least for a few decades. Can the annotation admit that it cannot summarize a "strange novel. The strangest I have ever heard of" (Novel, p. 91) in a few lines? – The second edition after seventy years is published as the ninth volume of the Hidden Modernity series with an introductory study by Vladimír Papoušek, who has already dedicated a separate book monograph to the author...