Argo: Radical Needs - novel launch

His new novel Radical needs will be presented by Tereza Semotamová in an interview with the poet Klára Krásenská, the editor of the book, and the publishing editor Petr Onufer.

Radical needs are in many ways a continuation of the author's successful debut In the closetwhich received an enthusiastic critical and reader reception and was nominated for the Magnesia Litera Award for Prose Fiction of the Year. In this new novel, too, the reader is quickly drawn into the world of the narrator and the protagonist in one person through the brisk and immediate language; but here Semotamova perhaps deepens and sharpens her distinctive narrative style, which steadily reinforces the tension between intimacy and ironic distance. And it is these two poles that delineate the inner world of Radical Needs, straddling relational and identity crises, fed by an insistent need for intellectual performance or an independent and unproblematic image. The probe into the life of a young artist, meanwhile, always turns to the same thing: the courage to face herself, to confront her real emotions and needs.

Both of the author's novels will be available for purchase on site. Free admission.

Tereza Semotamová (*1983) graduated in screenwriting and dramaturgy at the JAMU and in German studies at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno; she translates from German, writes journalism and is the author of a number of literary programmes and radio plays. Together with Jakub Vítek, she published a book in 2015 with the publishing house Větrné mlýny Pochong, or On the Pinochle of Human Existence. Her novel In the closet (Argo, 2018) was shortlisted for the Magnesia Litera Prize for Prose Fiction of the Year and was published in German translation by Voland und Quist in 2019.

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