Michal Šanda is known to readers primarily as the author of the almost mythic encylopedia Blues 1890–1940, for his novel South American Romance and his fairy tale collection Merekvice. Most recently Šanda captivated the critics with his correspondence with 19th century writer Karl Havlíček Borovský – Letters. The book Gathered to Sleep is similarly imaginative and playful. Trying to define its genre will prove difficult as it contains stories, poems as well as non-literary texts.