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Jiří Gruša – Czechia. User manual
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In the late 1990s, the Munich publishing house Piper, specialising, among other things, in guidebooks, invited the well-known Czech writer Jiří Gruša to write a guidebook to Czechia. But Piper guidebooks are unlike other publications of this type - they are always authored by well-known writers and they resemble historical and literary essays about countries or cities rather than “utilitarian” Baedekers.

Gruša’s guidebook is a work on Czech history (especially the recent one), as well as Czech myths and legends; but also about the dark sides of this country’s past, about the Czech inferiority complex, “skeletons in the cupboard” and events of which even today - despite the regained freedom of expression - people don’t like to speak. On top of it, it is a book of a great erudite and a man of great knowledge, written with panache and a typically Czech sense of humour and self-deprecation, full of funny puns and poetic images. At the same time, you can travel across Czechia holding it on your knees, for it also fulfils almost all requirements of a typical guidebook.

12th volume of THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN LIBRARY series edited by Jacek Purchla. 

Publication in Polish.

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