Tisíc let samoty – Dobiášová Krejčí Tereza (2022)

In her new book, Tereza Dobiášová returns to ancient Czech history. This time, however, she moves beyond verifiable history, opening up even more space for imagination, dreams, and visions. The three sisters, Kazin, Tetas, and Liban, are endowed with different qualities – one looks into the past, one into the future, and one lives in connection with the present. When their powers unite, a new age will begin. Just like in The Secret, the author depicts the Czech land as a place where giants and dragons live, and where natural forces are mightier than human ones. The story she builds resembles the tale of Krok's daughters, but it shares little more with the legend from Cosmas's Chronicle than is necessary. The book A Thousand Years of Solitude again celebrates feminine strength, yet it portrays it in the face of its impending end. With the three sisters comes a new age – a time when the society that valued its priestesses comes to an end, and a world based on struggle and strength: on men, emerges. A Thousand Years of Solitude is a novel about the end of a mythical age when women ruled, about a time when a new world is born – the one we know. A novel about a time when the world of giants, gray men, and wise women sinks beneath the surface. A novel about a time when the youngest of the sisters draws a threshold in the center of the earth in the middle of Europe on the ground,…