Review note - Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, german newspaper, 28th.04.2007
A "challenging and fearless Text" sees book reviewer Peter Demetz in Jachym Topols novel "Zirkuszone", in that its follows to the question, how it would have been, if the Czechs had sat down after striking down the Pragues´ Spring to the resistance. It reads the work, in which center of the growing up orphan boy Ilja is located, who is adopted by a Soviet armor branch, as "revival of scenes of the aharrowing experience". The historical drama mutated in its eyes thereby to the "absurdes theater". Impressed from the unrestrained joy of fabulising it appears by the author, who leaves psychology and conventional plausibility behind itself, in order to draw with unbelievable occurences and rushing into events from the full ones. The author shoots for Dementz occasional: "Taste beyond the goal". However he sees himself then again reconciled by Topols virtuose ability to bring in and connect literary quotations and parody. Also with high praise it endows to Milena Oda and Andreas Tretner for their translation achievement, in a "philological act of the first grade".
