Czech Books A stroll round the edge of the postmodern city
This week Czech Books met with a relatively new, but highly praised writer of prose and poetry, Josef Straka. The way in which Straka describes his experience of modern life, particularly city life, could be considered to be very postmodern in its fascination with the peripheral and the fragmentary. Originally from Jablonec nad Nisou in the north he is now based in Prague, though likes nothing better than to make long walks around the margins of other European cities, seeking out fragments of real life, what he calls ‘small miracles’, and living a life of ‘voluntary simplicity’ in a complex global world. I met with him in the hidden-away, and given his passion for long walks, aptly named Café Marathon.
Josef Straka
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