Лучшие годы - псу под хвост. Летописцы отцовской любви

by Michal Viewegh, Михал Вивег

Какие основания у критики считать, что `Михала Вивега можно издавать в два раза большим тиражом, чем других прозаиков`? Взрывной стиль прозы Вивега и широкая палитра типично чешского юмора сделали его самым читаемым автором, воссоздающим в излюбленной для него форме семейной хроники поворотные события недавнего прошлого Чехии.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.

His books, which, since the late 1990s, he publishes every spring, usually sell about 50,000 copies each, bringing him an upper-high-class income unparalleled among Czech writers (by his own boastful admissions, his royalties from a successful book are equal to roughly 8 years of an average Czech salary). His 2004 income was Kč 4 million. Viewegh likes to point out this success with readers, as well as the fact that his books have been translated to several languages and made into films, since he fell out of favor with critics in mid-1990s, which sentiment he heartily reciprocated in his following books.

Reviews

[Dmitry Zvorykin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Замаха много, удара нет. Нарисована интересная структура, в ней сыграть бы интересный сюжет - но нет, всё ушло в свисток. Пара забавных намеков на советское прошлое, пара намеков на разные подходы к воспитанию детей и ничего. Ну, ладно.