6/21/2023 0 Comments Gottland by Mariusz Szczygieł![]() At the one on Republic Square he is delighted by the following message on the wall: CHERISH CASUAL KINDNESS AND BEAUTIFUL BUT MEANINGLESS ACTS. ![]() The critics are thrilled, but the novel turns out to be hoax. That book was about the past, and this one is about the present day.Ĭzarne Publishing House, Wołowiec 2011Szczygieł watches Czech television and reads popular books, such as a novel by a young Vietnamese woman about Czech racism. It was during this period that he wrote Gottland, a historical reportage-mosaic portrait of the Czechs and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century. This book testifies to the author’s ten-year obsession with Czech culture. ![]() Rather than classic reportage of the kind Szczygieł has produced before now, this is more like a cross between sociology and reportage. Once again he takes us to the Czech Republic, but this time he also crosses the boundaries of reportage. ![]() Mariusz Szczygieł’s new book crosses some borders. ![]()
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