#the combinations

IS THIS THE ULTIMATE ‘PRAGUE NOVEL’?

Louis Armand’s THE COMBINATIONS (London: Equus, 2016).

“In the vein of Hašek’s Good Soldier Švejk and deeply rooted in the city’s literary and politico-satirical culture, Armand’s novel fulfils Alan Levy’s predictions and makes a powerful claim upon what Bruce Sterling sceptically referred to as “a Prague literary philosophy,” representing a major document of the post-Communist Prague literary renaissance, which includes writers like Jáchym Topol, Iva Pekarková and Michal Ajvaz, the late Lukáš Tomin and Hana Androniková...”