François Kérel Boeken

In de levens van vier mensen die via verschillende relaties verbonden zijn, blijken tegengestelde gevoelens en gedachten verwisselbaar, afhankelijk van ieders levensperspectief.

A young Czech whose mother has molded him into a poet becomes the people's literary hero during a Communist rally in 1948

Een Tsjechische vluchtelinge denkt terug aan haar leven in Praag.

Laughable loves is a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but then was banned. The seven stories are all concerned with love, or rather with the complex erotic games and strategems employed by women and especially men as they try to come to terms with needs ad impulses that can start a terrifying train of events. Sexual attraction is shown as a game that often turns sour, an experience that brings with it painful insisghts and releases uncertainty, panic, vanity and a constant need for reassurance.

Set in the not-too-distant past, this comic and exuberantly lustful tale by the author of The Miracle Game is also a savage parody of life under foreign occupation. The conscripts of a Czech battalion prepare themselves for inevitable war with the US - using unconventional tactics.