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Bohumil Hrabal, a Czech writer known for his lyrical grotesque and humor, in his novel The Town Where Time Stood Still evokes childhood in the small town of Libeň (part of Prague), where time seems to stand still in a magical but melancholic world.
The disturbing and emotionally exhausting story tells about a painter who, with her artistic passion, opposed the expectations imposed on her by her parents.
This is a biography about my father made up of memories and mere imagination. History does not exist, and neither do facts. The past is unknown.
This is an accusation, a slander, a personal insult. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a continuous insult, a spit in the face of Art, a foot in the tur against God, Man, Fate, Time, Love, Beauty...whatever you want.
Perhaps the greatest virtue of Velikić's writing, which culminated in this novel, is his extraordinarily refined feeling for life's details, which he depicts and evokes with an almost shamanic power of materialization.
Parallel World is considered Benedikt's boldest and most influential novel, a true pioneering work in which he first publicly presented his "theory of parallel dimensions" which would later become the backbone of his entire oeuvre.