These short stories by the renowned poet offer polished texts which surprise us with their paradoxes and stylistic experiments.
Literary fiction, Short stories
Sylva Fischerová’s new stories are relatively short but have clearly been pared to the bone, to a pure crystalline form which is sustained by atmosphere and style and yet raises profound questions and highlights original and unclichéd paradoxes. They are built up vividly, laconically, playfully, but also with sophistication: we have the interweaving of high and low culture, the past with the present, dialogue with narration, literature with life. The result is a remarkable collection of short stories which is neither developing nor recycling previous ideas, instead it offers the best prose that Sylva Fischerová has written and ranks amongst the top contemporary Czech prose.