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In 2022, Jan decided to publish at least the torso of this planned book and tried to get all the materials, which were often technically of completely poor quality, mostly already available… But before this book could be published, the world turned upside down. But maybe he didn’t topple over, he just sped up. Millions of refugees are already here, but from a different part of the world than expected. All ecological plans to save the planet fall by the wayside. The Green “Deal” fell. On the other hand, coal and nuclear power were given the green again. Instead of saving the planet, we have an arms race again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook is in English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Athanor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52959596151130,"sku":null,"price":1300.0,"currency_code":"CZK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4306\/5690\/files\/BILDERLEXIKON1-1-scaled.jpg?v=1765054225"},{"product_id":"alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland","title":"Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn addition the present volume also contains poems which open and end each book, together with Carroll’s Christmas and Easter greetings in the form of letters to his child readers which accompanied some later editions. Alice finds herself in the mysterious wonderland, a marvelous place whose peculiar inhabitants generally behave in a highly irrational manner. These eccentric characters implicate Alice in various fantastic situations, but she remains unfazed throughout, invariably responding with impervious logic. Her child-like naiveté enables her to point out the absurdity of the world, and in doing so to illustrate the singularity and authenticity of the perception of a child. This is also the reason that the book has long been regarded as a literary classic that will never become outdated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present special complete edition of Carroll’s Alice contains both volumes – the first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as well as the second book, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dybbuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52995625222490,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"CZK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4306\/5690\/files\/786_alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-1.jpg?v=1765054823"},{"product_id":"dimensions-of-dialogue-js-en","title":"Jan Švankmajer. Dimensions of Dialogue \/ Between Film and Fine Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book Possibilities of dialogue \/ Between film and free creation will remain Švankmajer’s essential monograph for a long time, no one else has similar source material. It systematically and comprehensively captures the creative and life journey of a filmmaker, artist, experimenter, graphic designer, scenographer, poet and “warrior surrealist” and shows how the individual pages talk to each other, how cohesive and at the same time exclusive his world is. The chronologically conceived biographical study alternates with essays interpreting the characteristic attributes of Švankmajer’s work, presenting and commenting on his individual works, whether for film or theater. Elaborated, quoted and richly documented in pictures (there are 415 reproductions in the book) are his scenography, drawings, assemblages, films, objects, poems, a collection built on the principle of a kunstkomora, creative and fatal connection with Eva Švankmajerová; the authors also draw attention to numerous artistic and professional collaborations, defining meetings, influences, experiences, obsessions, ideas and civic attitudes that shape the author’s unique and distinctive imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssential Švankmajer’s monograph in the English language version.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arbor Vitae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52995630727514,"sku":null,"price":2200.0,"currency_code":"CZK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4306\/5690\/files\/301_kniha-js-dimensions-of-dialogue-1.jpg?v=1765055330"},{"product_id":"monograph-jan-svankmajer-en","title":"Monograph Jan Švankmajer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book is signed by Jan Švankmajer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author of the book, Bruno Solarík, who, together with the director, participates in the activities of the group of surrealists, presents, through Švankmajer’s opinions and creations, a comprehensive testimony about the exceptional work of this world legend of Czech cinematography. The publication also includes previously unpublished reproductions of Švankmajer’s fetish objects and exclusive images from his latest film Insects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrative publication maps the creative principles of the globally recognized surrealist Jan Švankmajer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is in English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CPRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52995634037082,"sku":null,"price":1372.0,"currency_code":"CZK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4306\/5690\/files\/1026_jan-svankmajer-solarik-1.jpg?v=1765055494"},{"product_id":"hmyz-insect-cz-en","title":"Insect","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book \"Insects\" is a document about the preparation and course of the film's shooting. The introduction was written by František Dryje, a member of the Prague Surrealist Group and a long-time friend of Jan Švankmajer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt also contains an article by Jan Bernard, a film critic, which he published in the film magazine \"Film a doba\" in spring 2018 for the premiere in Prague.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the basic ideas, preface, film story, processing, preliminary notes, and Jan Švankmajer's diary, the book also contains production and technical information. It also lists the actors and film crew, members of the film production company \"Athanor\", and many photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is published in a Czech-English version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Švankmajer.art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52995638526298,"sku":null,"price":890.0,"currency_code":"CZK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4306\/5690\/files\/ob2-_Ang..jpg?v=1765055875"},{"product_id":"locus-solus-cz","title":"Locus Solus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author of the novel Locus Solus is Raymond Roussel, a well-known French writer who strongly influenced the surrealist group at its inception. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJan Švankmajer supplemented this Czech edition of the book with 13 illustrations. The book is signed by Jan Švankmajer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRaymond Roussel posthumously revealed the method of creation of the novel \u003cem\u003eLocus Solus\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as \u003cem\u003eAfrican Impressions\u003c\/em\u003e and his other works, in his text \u003cem\u003eHow I Wrote Certain of My Books\u003c\/em\u003e. It arose from a formal constraint that the author followed, where he took two similar words, added to them words that were the same but had two meanings, thus obtaining two almost identical sentences, on the basis of which he then built the entire text. The distinguished scientist and inventor Martial Canterel invites a group of his colleagues and friends to visit his country estate Locus Solus. He presents increasingly bizarre inventions to the visitors, culminating in a tableau vivant, actually represented by dead people revived with a liquid called resurrectine, which, when injected into a fresh corpse, forces it to repeat the most important event of its life. Raymond Roussel, misunderstood and disparaged during his lifetime, yet a completely original author whose work received negative reactions, eventually won the admiration of surrealist groups and other avant-garde authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe creation of this book was initiated by the Raymond Roussel Society, which approached Jan Švankmajer. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Švankmajer.art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52995664707930,"sku":null,"price":661.0,"currency_code":"CZK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4306\/5690\/files\/roussel1-3d_celo-768x857.webp?v=1764884810"},{"product_id":"moznosti-dialogu-js-cz","title":"Možnosti dialogu JŠ","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book Possibilities of dialogue \/ Between film and free creation will remain Švankmajer’s essential monograph for a long time, no one else has similar source material. It systematically and comprehensively captures the creative and life journey of a filmmaker, artist, experimenter, graphic designer, scenographer, poet and “warrior surrealist” and shows how the individual pages talk to each other, how cohesive and at the same time exclusive his world is. The chronologically conceived biographical study alternates with essays interpreting the characteristic attributes of Švankmajer’s work, presenting and commenting on his individual works, whether for film or theater. Elaborated, quoted and richly documented in pictures (there are 415 reproductions in the book) are his scenography, drawings, assemblages, films, objects, poems, a collection built on the principle of a kunstkomora, creative and fatal connection with Eva Švankmajerová; the authors also draw attention to numerous artistic and professional collaborations, defining meetings, influences, experiences, obsessions, ideas and civic attitudes that shape the author’s unique and distinctive imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssential Švankmajer’s monograph in the Czech language version.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arbor Vitae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52995676275034,"sku":null,"price":2093.0,"currency_code":"CZK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4306\/5690\/files\/301_kniha-js-dimensions-of-dialogue-1_1.jpg?v=1765056260"},{"product_id":"monografie-jan-svankmajer-cz","title":"Monografie Jan Švankmajer","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is signed by Jan Švankmajer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author of the book, Bruno Solarík, who, together with the director, participates in the activities of the group of surrealists, presents, through Švankmajer’s opinions and creations, a comprehensive testimony about the exceptional work of this world legend of Czech cinematography. 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Edogawa Ranpo founded the tradition of the genre of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003esuiri shosetsu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which in Japanese means \"deductive mystery fiction\". Not only the mysterious and horror atmosphere of the stories, for which the author became famous, was what prompted the illustrator to create.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJan Švankmajer describes his encounter with Ranpo's work as captivating due to its \"tactility\", which excites and interests him long-term. He has been working with the processing of \"tactility\" in art since the mid-1970s, not only in film, but also in his artistic objects and illustrations. Ranpo's unconventional stories are a challenge to a certain experimentation with the boundary of mere book illustration, which is usually understood as a subtle elaboration, an accompaniment to the prevailing text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eŠvankmajer takes a different approach and breaks this idea— he wants his illustrations to provide readers with a certain presence of sensory and tactile feelings. At the same time, his cinematic vision is undeniable in such a rendition — animation adds a dimension in the tradition of the stroboscope, or rather in the tradition of the legendary Linnett's \"kinetograph\", i.e. a series of images following one another and creating the illusion of movement by flipping through them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book is in Czech.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dybbuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53065885811034,"sku":null,"price":461.0,"currency_code":"CZK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4306\/5690\/files\/Snimek_obrazovky_2026-02-10_v_23.16.41.png?v=1770762253"},{"product_id":"negativni-roman-1","title":"Negativní Román","description":"\u003cp\u003eJan Švankmajer’s new work is “a contribution to the waiting for the great Czech novel,” a waiting that periodically returns in our local basin, as if that “great Czech novel” were to be the salvation of all literature, and ultimately, of us “poor” Czechs ourselves. In Švankmajer’s case, there could be no greater irony. This is a book that arose from play and not from the ambition to lay a literary work at the reader’s feet. It is a considerably free text, but in certain parameters, it truly approaches a novel. The initial inspiration lay in a group game where one author’s poem was transformed into its semantic opposite. This resulted in so-called “negative poems,” but perhaps it would be more apt to use the term “tonally inverted” poems. Švankmajer then develops his new novelistic opus on this playful principle. His starting point is the first part of Jean Paul Sartre’s unfinished novel tetralogy \u003cem\u003eThe Roads to Freedom: The Age of Reason\u003c\/em\u003e, which he randomly pulled from a library one day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eŠvankmajer “tonally inverts” the plot and characters of Sartre’s novel – where Sartre has a man, Švankmajer has a woman, and so on. Surprisingly, the initial situations and dilemmas remain the same as in Sartre’s book: an unwanted pregnancy is the focal point around which everything revolves. The decision of whether a woman keeps the child or undergoes an abortion then influences her entire future life. Both Sartre’s book and Švankmajer’s are permeated by the question of the degree of freedom allotted to us in the world and how this freedom, or its absence, limits our existence. However, Švankmajer approaches the question of freedom differently from Sartre and existentialism in general. For him, freedom is certainly not the result of our personal “project,” but is considerably determined. 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The poems and pastels share the same thematic and value-based starting points, which are common or close to both authors: both are significant representatives of that creative (expressive, imaginative) line whose roots extend into the history of Czech surrealism (Nezval, Havlíček, Effenberger et al.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDryje himself says: \"... I try to grasp and process an external, however 'high' or 'low' impulse in my own unique way ... to devour it and spit it out embodied in my flesh and clothed in my skin – I try to view the world primarily through the prism of subjectivity, which refracts a light beam of impulse coming from somewhere, thus illuminating the path to the only valid, imaginative communication.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book is in Czech.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arbor Vitae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53067233296730,"sku":null,"price":249.0,"currency_code":"CZK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/4306\/5690\/files\/cb7c9559-5043-447c-a56c-e4d30cf8c640.jpg?v=1765496224"},{"product_id":"zvuk-dyni-v-zakulisi","title":"Zvuk dýní v zákulisí","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of texts that Eva Švankmajerová compiled and named during her lifetime. Her husband, Jan Švankmajer, supplemented the manuscript with illustrations from her drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collected texts of Eva Švankmajerová contained in this book are diverse in genre: childhood memories, dream records, distinctive, in many respects socio-critical essayistic-fiction treatises, texts on the border of prose poems and short stories, small dramatic forms - miniatures of film scripts or theatrical sketches, answers to surrealist surveys, author's contributions to collective surrealist games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, the genre diversity does not create a fragmented content and meaning: a distinct unifying axis is formed - in addition to the clear worldview of surrealist imaginative subversion - by the author's unmistakable language, sovereignly transposing the degraded lexicon and stylistic procedures of former \"women's pulp fiction\" into poetically provocative positions, in which she usually inseparably combines and intertwines her most private themes (love, sex, family life, relationships...) with critical commentaries on social phenomena (women's emancipation, institutionalized education, defiance against all forms of repression and stupidity, etc.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe texts represent fundamental formal (commentaries) and substantive parallels to her own painting and poetic work: paintings boil, cars change shape as if in some psychedelic trip, the author dreams of putting on worn-out men's boxers and boiling worn-out children's Spartakiad sneakers in a pressure cooker. 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It is as if he senses that if he does not do it precisely now, something that is self-evident today will spontaneously vanish tomorrow, and there will be no one left to make it present – as he does today – truly from within.” In 1980, an internal discussion about surrealist poetry took place within the surrealist group. Vratislav Effenberger contributed to it with a gloss titled \"Surrealism eternal, ingrained, or Beating a dead horse.\" In this note, the distinction between the Bretonian and Effenbergerian models of surrealism is expressed somewhat simplistically but clearly. It was known that Effenberger rejected and condemned Schuster's concept of \"eternal,\" ahistorical surrealism – which, however, denied Breton's fundamental, albeit fluctuating, i.e., contaminated by utopian and metaphysical considerations, conception of creative and historical dialectics. But what did the author mean by the designation (surrealism) \"ingrained\"? Was this neologism just an expressive synonym for the adjective \"historical,\" or did it encompass other meanings? When we asked Effenberger about the meaning and significance of this phrase, he replied roughly as follows (I paraphrase): \"Well, it seemed to me that Žitná Street was quite unfairly forgotten compared to Ječná Street... 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