Friends of Arnošt Lustig through the eyes of František Cinger

A collection of eleven portraits of people close to the world-famous author, whom a friend and collaborator a generation younger than him met. He saw or corresponded with all of them, and had conversations with most of them about their lives and literary works.

In the case of Zdeněk Mahler, it is not only the experience of working with Lustig in the Čs. radio. While working on the book Moments: Arnošt Lustig remembers Ota Pavel Cinger met Jiří and Hugo Pavel many times. The Fate of Josef Škvorecký, A. J. Liehm or Eduard Goldstücker tell the story of literature and politics from the 1950s to the so-called "golden age". Prague Spring. The work of Milan Kundera maps an extraordinary personality of world literature. Adolf Branald's portrait offers an experience from the first years of Czech film after World War I through the stories depicted in the films Dědeček automobil and Vizita. Lustig's peers and friends Bohumil Hrabal, Josef Nesvadba and Petr Šabach, a generation younger, are also present. The set also includes a portrait of Arnošt's wife, the poet and prose writer Věra Weislitzová.

The book is published on the 100th anniversary of the birth of A. Lustig and is included in the FestivAL100 project.