Vladimír Stejskal Book order (chronological)

Autor se vydává do Lipnice po stopách slavného spisovatele Jaroslava Haška. Navštěvuje místa, kde Hašek často pobýval, rozmlouvá s lidmi, jež se s ním setkali a i díky jejich podání udává na správnou míru mnohé historky, jež se o Haškovi tradují. Jednotlivé kapitoly tak popisují a komentují Haškův pobyt na Lipnici takřka den po dni. Druhou část knihy tvoří několik Haškových povídek, jež napsal právě na Lipnici.

The Czech author Božena Němcová (1820-1862), born in Vienna, paints an entirely unsentimental portrait of the country habits and customs of Bohemia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and depicts the people she encountered during her childhood: teachers, maids, farm workers, millers, foresters, priests, to name but a few. The central character of this story, set in Eastern Bohemia, is a grandmother, full of simple wisdom, goodness and love, who personifies an ideal of maternal care. The Prošek family live in this country idyll but their father’s work means that he is compelled to spend a large part of the year in the imperial city of Vienna. Thus, their grandmother is brought home to look after the children and the property. This is the background against which the author unfolds the most important prose work in Czech literature and creates “one of the best female characters in world literature”.