Jaroslav Rudiš

Czech Paradise

Trans. Katarzyna Dudzic-Grabińska
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Czeski Raj
Książkowe Klimaty, 2020, 202 pp
9788366505063
Language: Polish
Goodreads rating
73% (Rated by 578 users)
Literary fiction

Witty conversations in a sauna staking everything on undiluted dialogue.

A group of sixteen friends regularly meet in a sauna for some sweaty guy time filled with chat. But their refuge is about to close for good. This witty novel about men’s woes is based on pure dialogue from speakers who are only referred to by their Indian nicknames. It was staged in Brno by Divadlo Feste as the play Čekání na konec světa (Waiting for the End of the World) before the literary version was created, and in February 2019 it will have its premiere in Germany. This essentially humorous novel doesn’t have a central character or a dominant narrator, and yet it knows all there is to know about men’s expulsion from paradise. The great male we in times when something significant is coming to an end is the unifying element of this prose work.

Information about the original Czech edition

Český ráj

Czeski Raj
Książkowe Klimaty, 2020, 202 pp
9788366505063
Language: Polish
Goodreads rating
73% (Rated by 578 users)