Achillova pata a jiné patálie – Slezák Milan (2019)

A book of essays filled with humor, perspective, and many insider details explains a whole range of sayings, quotes, metaphors, and expressions that we can encounter in literature, the media, and everyday conversation. You might be heading to the office in the morning without enthusiasm because a Sisyphean task awaits you there. In the morning, you realize you've been warming a snake in your bosom in the form of a self-serving colleague and uncover your boss's Achilles' heel. You hate petty squabbles, so you dryly apologize and prefer to go look for your new patron. And since you don't want to step into the same river twice, you consult Vaněk. You hope he won't do you a disservice. You maintain stoic calm and imagine that one day you will be as rich as Croesus. Don't know what I'm talking about? Flip through the pages and you'll understand! The author is a Czech journalist who has worked for several newspapers, including Lidové and Hospodářské noviny, and for the magazine Týden. In 2005, he joined Czech Radio and is its foreign policy analyst. He has previously served twice as deputy editor-in-chief and has led three columns. He is a recipient of the Ferdinand Peroutka Prize and the Journalistic Quail Prize.