Jste to vy? – Rejžek Jan (2022)

The book of memories by the music, film, theater, and sports journalist and poet Jan Rejžek (* 1954), known to readers from many newspapers and magazines, as well as from radio and television programs for over forty-seven years, is written in a light, entertaining style that unmistakably reveals the main features of Rejžek's writing as we know it well – irony and self-irony, sarcasm, sharpness, uncompromising criticism, but also humor, exaggeration, and wit. The book Are You It? will undoubtedly annoy and infuriate many readers – as is often the case with Rejžek – while others will find it amusing and informative about numerous details of Czech cultural and social life; it will certainly not bore anyone. Rejžek's narrative captures his encounters with hundreds of personalities, from the most famous (Václav Havel, Karel Gott) to the completely unknown. Here we meet musicians, athletes, actors, directors, journalists, writers, and politicians, always within the framework of entertaining and often hardly believable stories. Rejžek has been able to tease and entertain readers since the beginning of his writing, and he does so abundantly in his memoirs. Although it is an entertaining and readable book, the captured facts will undoubtedly also make it an important source of knowledge about Czech cultural and social life in the last...