This volume contains the author’s poetry debut – a collection called Murder in the Intercontinental Hotel / Vražda v hotelu Intercontinental, first published in 1989, together with a collection of short stories, Return of the Old Komodo Dragon / Návrat starého varana, first published in 1991. Though one part of this volume is a collection of verse and the other short stories, the union is not inorganic. The fundamental structural principle is the same in both: the logically real space of Prague is disrupted by fantastic ideas that, somewhat surprisingly, do not disrupt the illusion of reality.
Books from the Tschechishe Auslese edition are published in cooperation with the Czech publishing house Větrné mlýny.
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Other selected published translations (2)
Moderstwo w hotelu Intercontinental. Powrót starego warana. Inne miasto Polish
De kever Dutch