This book contains several dozen texts arranged into four parts , with the emphasis on texts written in the second half of the 1990’s. The first part is a confession, the second expresses the author’s opinions on Czech literature of the past fifty years, while the third part is devoted mainly to the work of Ivan Vyskočil and Milan Kundera. The closing passage is of a more general character. The whole book is actually a variation on a single theme – the mystery of the story.