Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:53:40 +0200https://english.radio.cz/a-stroll-round-edge-postmodern-city-8584888© 2026 Radio Prague International This week Czech Books met with a relatively new, but highly praised writer of prose and poetry, Josef Straka. The way in which Straka describes his experience of modern life, particularly city life, could be considered to be very postmodern in its fascination with the peripheral and the fragmentary. Originally from Jablonec nad Nisou in the north he is now based in Prague, though likes nothing better than to make long walks around the margins of other European cities, seeking out fragments of real life, what he calls ‘small miracles’, and living a life of ‘voluntary simplicity’ in a complex global world. I met with him in the hidden-away, and given his passion for long walks, aptly named Café Marathon. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/straka_josef.jpg?timestamp=1591333897 https://english.radio.cz/a-stroll-round-edge-postmodern-city-8584888 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9