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The stories of Dušan Mitana, a master of short forms, are typifiedby their combination of a hard, bony reality and elements of thefantastical and the absurd – rather like the era in which they were written.
The second short story collection by this now legendary author, is similar to his début, PSIE DNI, in blending an everyday reality ofapparently quite ordinary characters with various dreamlike andmysterious elements. Although the collection came out in 1976, itharks back to the 1960s with its evocations of freedom in atotalitarian regime as well as of its harsh suppression aftertheinvasion of Czechoslovakia by occupying forces in 1968. Thecollection includes the story IHLA (The Needle), considered one ofthe best literary texts of the 20th century.
