Nová próza Michala Viewegha se jmenuje podle jedné ze třinácti povídek, která knihu také uzavírá. Autor svou oblíbenou postavu – Oskara – vystavuje kritickým životním momentům: manželskému stereotypu, nevěrám či jisté smrti, kterou sice Oskar přežije, ale s těžkými následky. Jedním z nich je rozvod. V povídkách si vychutnáme jejich literární rozmanitost i další autorovy přednosti, včetně ironie, nadsázky i melancholické grotesknosti. Stručně řečeno: náš nejpopulárnější spisovatel je zpátky ve hře.
Author
Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans. His books, which, since the late 1990s, he publishes every spring, usually sell about 50,000 copies each, bringing him an upper-high-class income unparalleled among Czech writers (by his own boastful admissions, his royalties from a successful book are equal to roughly 8 years of an average Czech salary). His 2004 income was Kč 4 million. Viewegh likes to point out this success with readers, as well as the fact that his books have been translated to several languages and made into films, since he fell out of favor with critics in mid-1990s, which sentiment he heartily reciprocated in his following books.
