Josef Kroutvor: Prague Pedestrian

Art historian and essayist Josef Kroutvor (b. 1942) from 1969 onwards, he published, at first mostly in magazines, a number of studies, critical and art historical essays, literary texts and essays. He published his works in official periodicals, in samizdat and in exile journals. After 1989, many of his works were published in books. In a lengthy essay entitled Prague Walker 1982, Kroutvor confronts the personal experiences of an intellectual during the totalitarian era with the myth of Franz Kafka and his works. It reads: Jiri Ornest.