Otrava krve

Twenty years after November 1989, the writer Lubomír Martínek and the artist Karel Haloun publish a book interview in the Revolver Revue edition - a peculiar discussion about the legacy of the normalisation era and about many other topics "from which it is not good to run away". The authors are not assigned the usual roles of interviewer and interviewee; their discussion is a "double" band of critically focused reflections that unfold through mutually posed questions or jointly recalled memories. The socially critical dialogue between two prominent figures of Czech culture, which was created on the basis of their long-term "electronic conversation", enriches the genre spectrum of contemporary essayistic literature with its distinctive form, and the confrontation of two unique personal experiences represents a valuable contribution to the reflection on the history and present of Czech society.