Dům prázdnoty – Argonantus (2021)

The most complex adventure will catch up with the scribe Argonant after fifteen years since the beginning of his journey, described in the novel Seven Fish (Beletris, 2014). Argonant is accompanied by his wife Judita, who plays the most dangerous and actually the main role in this story. Their journey takes them only between Prague and the surroundings of Litoměřice, yet they manage to uncover surprising secrets of their own lives and several previous centuries of history. The world of knights, dragons, castles, and heraldic symbols, along with their hidden meanings, comes to life here in the greatest extent. This story was not meant to be told to friends, as in other cases, but was to remain a secret within the family. Despite this, it found its way into a volume of popular reading, referred to as the "Kostelecký Manuscript," discovered during the return of documents back to the Stvolínec Castle from the state archive after the floods of 2002. Through the complicated journey from Argonant's private Latin manuscript to today's book, we believe that some typical peculiarities of Argonant's medieval style, recurring in his other stories, have managed to be preserved. It leaves a similarly unsettling impression as references to chronicles, places, and people, which can be verified as real,…