Bohumil Hrabal: Vita nuova

The second volume of Hrabal's memoirs from 1982-85. A colourful monologue, flowing without punctuation, portrays the author and the times, brings old and new stories in which the reader meets the painter Vladimír Boudník and his wife Tekla, Egon Bondy, Mr. Marysko and the poets of Group 42. Vita nuova is an experimental text, in which individual motifs are arranged in a rhythmic stream of images, projected by the epidiascope of the painter Vladimír Boudník. It reads: Zdenka Hadrbolcová