Prose

A single-volume edition of three prose works – Mesíc ve žních (The Harvest Month), Dimanche à Paris and Cínanova pena (The Chinese Man’s Foam). Their plot takes place in very different natural and human environments – in the Czech Republic (Moravian countryside, Prague), in France (Paris, Provence) and in Polynesia (Tahiti). Combined together, these variegated sceneries create a colourful, ragged fresco, a holistic picture of the world in both its intriguing and volatile character, while at the same time unveiling it, for all its lightness and seductiveness, as a mysterious labyrinth. The “small mondscheinsonate or sonata quasi una fantasia,” as the book is referred to by its author V. Binar (* 1941), was composed over a long period of time between 1970 and 2010.

More information about the Polish edition on the publisher’s website.

The author won the Jaroslav Seifert Award and the 2012 Czech Book Award

About the Author

Vladimír Binar (born 1941) has published a book of essays Cin a slovo (in its definitive form, published as Cin a slovo. Kniha o Jakubu Demlovi, The Act and the Word. A Book on Jakub Deml, Triáda 2010), the novel Playback (Triáda 2001), a book of selected poetry Hlava žáru (Head Aglow, Triáda 2009) and a book of prose, Emigrantský snár (Emigré’s Dreambook, Triáda 2003).