Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. In 2005, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for his novel Pra?zdne? ulice (Empty Streets). He is a researcher at Prague's Center for Theoretical Studies. In addition to fiction, he has published an essay on Derrida, a book-length meditation on Borges, and a philosophical study on the act of seeing. Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. In 2005, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for his novel Pra?zdne? ulice (Empty Streets). He is a researcher at Prague's Center for Theoretical Studies. In addition to fiction, he has published an essay on Derrida, a book-length meditation on Borges, and a philosophical study on the act of seeing.
“This 2001 novel, Ajvaz’s most brilliantly complicated, is a
fictional travelogue, part philosophical ethnography and part
potboiling fairy tale.” — Jonathan Bolton, CONTEXT
“Michal Ajvaz is a literary magician creating worlds of worlds,
worlds of words, worlds of objects. He is the fantastical baby of
Borges and Timothy Leary. He is a cartographer on mescaline. He is
Czech.” — Salonica
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