Well-Dressed Dude

A selection of the best from Petr Šabach's work, supplemented with previously unpublished short stories, was prepared by writers Emil Hakl and Václav Kahuda, with a foreword by the author's friend, Zdeněk Svěrák.

The literary world of Petr Šabach is a kingdom where, instead of a throne, there's a pub chair. Regulars sit around the table, and knighthoods are awarded for a good story. Here, life is viewed through a pint of beer to give it the appropriately comical features and a nostalgic mood, and you drink briskly so the head doesn't fall. Petr Šabach's authorial style represents the most fundamental form on which literature is built—a captivating and well-pointed tale, which he mastered with a distinctive style, authenticity, and hyperbole. He wrote dozens of short stories and novels, some of which were adapted into films and became a widely shared testimony about the end of the Normalisation era and the suddenly free nineties.