Arnoลกt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.
Josef SkvoreckyThere is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off oneโs dreams until some improbable future โ a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded oneโs life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.
Josef SkvoreckyLovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
Josef Skvorecky