Český snář (sny roku 1979), Český snář (sny roku 1979) - komentáře a hlasy k Českému snáři

Thematically, the text of A Czech Dreambook describes the everyday life of a dissident — his work in the underground publishing series Edice Petlice, repression and interrogations by the security services, family and love relationships, friends leaving the country, observations of nature and reflections on literature, and thoughts about his own childhood and youth.

Not only after its completion, but already during the creation of the text of the novel, the first readers discussed it widely. The critical edition of the work can therefore be purchased in a set with a second supplementary volume, containing explanations of references to the Czechoslovak reality at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, aimed at placing the novel in the broader context of the author's work and the different development of the literary history of Czech literature.

The volume of comments offers insight into the complex genesis of the text, its distribution and reception, and also includes a new edition of the collection of first reactions to the novel entitled Hlasy nad rukopisem Vaculíkova Českého snáře (Notes on the Manuscript of Ludvík Vaculík's A Czech Dreambook). The publication Komentáře a hlasy k Českému snáři (Comments and Notes on A Czech Dreambook) is a supplementary volume to the critical edition of Ludvík Vaculík's novel. While the first volume of the presented edition is devoted to A Czech Dreambook as a unique work of art, the aim of the second volume is to provide materials for a contextual reading of the work, emphasizing the documentary character of this diary prose.