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Theory of Weirdness
A book about freedom, which won the Magnesia Litera Award for Best Prose
The narrator Ada Sabová, a young scientist from the "Institute of Interdisciplinary Human Studies", is in many ways a typical (but not stereotypical) modern intellectual trying to balance her personal life and career.
She has done a lot of both, and so she is not free from a certain cynicism, or rather a learned, sarcastic perception of the world, the people around her and herself. Against the backdrop of the search for his colleague's missing son, he notices seemingly random things around him, but he suspects a pattern and interconnectedness behind them.
He seeks an overarching definition for all these phenomena, his "theory of strangeness", and finds that the infinite complexity of the world cannot be grasped by reason alone. And while the society around her clings more and more to hollowed-out rules, Ada leaves its structures one by one and sets out for freedom.
They wrote about the book Theory of Weirdness
"The author asks with wit, but not in a frivolous way, what is man, what defines him, and what is the nature of the world. For years I have been sitting with Pavla Horáková at the café table and I never realized how good a writer she is. The world is a strange place, full of wonders. "
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"A very hilarious novel. I appreciate the fact that the author breaks away from the current trend of most Czech women writers and the focus of the plot is not the heroine wallowing in depression and experiencing one blow of fate after another. This is not to say that this is some kind of humorous literature, not at all. The whole novel is written in a kind of light, ethereal hyperbole and touches on many issues, whether serious or quite banal, that come to mind for many of us at certain moments. It's original, brisk, just well written. "
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