A novelist fresco as a journey through history.

Literary fiction, Prose  |  English sample translation available

A large-scale, opulent and sweeping novelistic sketch; a work rich in genre, subject matter, style and language. The author’s latest novel loosely follows on from his 20-year-old prose work Cesta do pekel (Journey to Hell). Both works blend together timelines, fiction and dream, Satan in various guises, humour and tragedy. The Domino Effect is a rich feast of thematic, linguistic and stylistic positions, time zones and fates that can intersect at any point in the past, present and future, which form a whole.

Václav Vokolek (1947) is a novelist, journalist and artist. After his secondary-school and unfinished university studies, he worked as the caretaker of a stately home, a museum worker and later a restorer. He is the author of more than forty books; he writes prose, poetry and specialist literature. After November 1989, he sat on various literary boards, ran the review Souvislosti and was involved in founding the Triáda publishing house, and since 1995 he has taught at the College of Journalism in Prague. His work as an editor includes the literary estate of his father, Vladimír Vokolek, and the cultural history of the Czech lands from a spiritual point of view.