Warning
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Is this a generational conflict, a typical problem of today's divided society, or a conflict of faith and rationality? Jarka Kohoutová and Karolína Mapalová, mother and daughter, both lost their husbands and both are forced to cope with life after the death of a loved one. The intelligent Karolína rationalises the world to a fault, but at the same time often finds herself unexpectedly in the grip of anger and emotion. Emotional Jarka would like to save her daughter from intellectual nihilism, because things around us cannot be grasped by reason alone. When a jovial religious blogger unexpectedly comes between them, she acts as a catalyst for a laboratory experiment and the substances in the mixture begin to react violently. The mother thinks her daughter is losing faith. The daughter thinks her mother is losing her mind. Each fighting for the other's soul. < br> < br> "Marek Technik has written a hysterical book. That is, in the context of contemporary Czech literature, a rare and courageous offshoot of consistent hysterical realism. In a characteristically technical, yet at the same time empathic and playfully ironic way, he studies and affects the strange paradox of our digital, over-informed age - on the one hand, the monstrous, compulsive observation and rationalization of everything, on the other hand, the renaissance of medieval Christian mysticism culminating in deranged apocalyptic prophecies. We follow the wild ride along the thought paths of two disparate characters, as disparate as a mother and daughter can be." < br> < br> Ivana Myšková, writer and journalist < br> < br> "Ignoring warnings often doesn't pay off, and in the case of Mark Technik's novel of the same name, it certainly does. At its best, Warning draws on historical themes and literary traditions, while retaining its utter timeliness and freshness." < br> < br> Marie Michlová, author of Death of the Muses < br> < br> The publication of the book was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
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