Dark Love

This is the most open excursion into the author’s private life. She has not abandoned the sound and well-tried weapons that are so typical of her style – sarcasm, an emphasis on the absurd sides of reality – or the distorted glass through which she looks. The individual sections of the text are handled in various ways (the hyperbolised metaphor of living with a partner, social allegory, a paraphrasing of Dante’s Divine Comedy, to mention a few instances only...). All three segments have one thing in common and that is the psychotherapeutic dialogue between the main character – the ageing narrator Kateřina – and her doctor.
In Czech literary circles, this book is often considered the best home-produced prose work of the past ten years.