Heretical vintage

Josef Holcman, author of the books Týden co týden (2001), Hýlom hálom (2007) and Sklepokruhy (2024), describes in his new book the environment of his native Vlkošsko and its wine cellars, vineyards and vineyards in his distinctive language. People open the doors to their homes and hearts through it. Breathe in the scent of the earth, grapes and the wine itself.

They wrote about the previous books:
Josef Holcman is so intoxicating with his words about wine and vineyards, about pubs and friends that if it were true, he wouldn' t be able to get home. His writing is spontaneous and metabolic, like screaming, sweating. or whatever you want behind the barn. He doesn' t want to follow or overtake anyone in literature. His writing behavior is private, as private as the growth of every tree in a forest that doesn' t even know it' s in a culture.
Writer Ludvík Vaculík about the book Week by Week

The old widow tells the story of her husband, her family, her village, and this country, concisely and with intimate knowledge. No moralizing, no sentiment and self-pity, just the vivid concreteness of the filth of bygone times. Even dialectal elements are " just right" and they do not seem like approval, but rather confirm the immediacy of this festive text.
Daniela Fischerová, writer and screenwriter, on the Slap Award

I became acquainted with the work of Josef Holcman about thirty years ago. It occurred to me then – It' s not just a writer, it' s an element. The assumption was fulfilled, his lyrics can be compared to the gushing of a geyser: they are communicated in one breath and graspable only in a dizzying flight. Polyphonic Holcman dialect. The reader will only savor it when the spray of words falls silent and the rippled surface offers an increasingly clear view of the bottom. And from the bottom again flying upwards.
Writer Antonín Bajaja on the book The Third Journey