{"product_id":"lidske-kreslo","title":"Lidské křeslo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this book, artist Jan Švankmajer meets two horror stories by the cult Japanese writer. 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","url":"https:\/\/svankmajer.art\/en\/products\/lidske-kreslo","provider":"Švankmajer.art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}