Anna Blažičková: Now something from life

Anna Blažíčková's memoir tells of her married life with the literary scholar Přemysl Blažíček, and in deeper layers a line of deep reflection on her own personal maturation is formed against the background of events in public life from the 1940s to the present. read by Eliška Balzerová The book chronicles the life of one family and many significant events in the history of our country (the Stalinist fifties, the liberation of the sixties, the abomination of the normalisation era, the formation of a free society after 1989). The narrative does not follow a strictly chronological line, but a distinctive style, The attention to detail and the honesty of the narrative combine to create a wondrous text, which covers youthful maturation, family life with a husband and two children, A look behind the scenes of working in a literary science department, aging and declining strength, but also the uncanny power of an uncompromising approach to life's obstacles and creative restlessness.