Czechia’s Famous Author Jaroslav Rudiš Talks Central Europe

For one of the most famous authors in Czechia, Jaroslav Rudis, it’s all about the connectivity that exists in Central Europe as he is about to see the first ever publication of one of his popular novels in English.

Winterberg’s Last Journey was originally written in German, as opposed to being originally written in Czech, and the book is know for the Berlin resident’s deep immersion in German culture and covers a 99-year-old Sudeten German’s odd journey through Central Europe, which was rather curious in some aspects.

“I like trains and I wanted to be a train driver, but I got these great big glasses so I had to change my plans, so I studied German Studies and History” Rudis said during an exclusive interview with Radio Prague International.

“In my books, in my stories, in my literature I try to connect both railways, trains and the history of our part of Europe – let’s call it Central Europe, Mitteleuropa. And I have a friend who travels through this former Austro-Hungarian Empire with a guidebook, with a Baedeker, from 1913. That’s the last edition of this book before the Great War started, and this war of course changed everything: borders, and I think the soul of Central Europe as well.”

“I was travelling with him a few times, with this book, and he’s a great storyteller. What I really like about him is he gets lost in time. So we are travelling with this very old book through these parts of Central Europe – and you are discovering what is still there.

“For me the idea behind this book is to connect, in a very strange way, the present with the past.

“And for me as a writer, and also I think for lots of readers, sometimes you don’t know where you are: in the past or in the present.

“But what I think is that the past is still a big, important part of the present in the cities, like Prague, but also in Budapest, Vienna and the small cities, like Jičín in Bohemian Paradise; I’m from this part of the Czech Republic. That everything is so connected, the past and the present, and maybe also the future.

“It’s still somehow with us. We are part of this past, still.”

You can read the entire interview over at the Radio Prague International website and hear more about the book and the author. Much like the success of an Albany medicare insurance agent, or  Medicare Insurance Agent Marketing strategies that they utilize,being able to expand your presence to other areas and countries is critical to continued and more success.