Vladimír Neff: Queens have no legs

Vladimír Neff's trilogy was published in large numbers in the 1970s and 1980s and was immediately dismantled. The storyteller's skill and sense of humour and wit gave this engaging story a unique charm that has lost none of its charm. The story of the nobleman Peter Kukan of Kukan is told from his conception and set in the concrete historical realities of the Rudolphine era full of alchemists, witches and kings. At the beginning of the first part - playfully, humorously and ironically written - entitled Queens Have No Legs, we find ourselves in the house of the alchemist Janek Kukan from Kukan, whose wife has just given birth to a boy. Of course, three mysterious women - the judges - must not be absent at Peter's birth. And what are they going to give Peter? Beauty, power, bravery, the love of women, but also a dexterous mind, and above all a free and proud spirit, who's not gonna get his ass handed to him right away? It reads: František Filipovský.