The eighteenth part of the Toulek in Czech Past was dedicated to the author Zdeněk Volný, especially Czech literary work in the interwar period. This twenty -year -old remains its peak period: after overcoming the depression of the horrors of the First World War, literature and art developed in a number of directions based on various artistic and political ideas of authors and individual literary groups. The so -called proletarian poetry, headed by Jiří Wolker, rushed out of the cruel postwar poverty. The opening of more promising life perspectives then stimulated the emergence of charming poetism and other directions, such as Surrealism. The book brings the stories of the greatest figures of interwar poetry and prose: the Nobel Prize winner Jaroslav Seifert, Vítězslav Nezval, Konstantin Biebl or Vladislav Vančura and also contains a chapter on contemporary fine arts. In the first two chapters, the text returns to the Czech decadent movement and its central characters, Jiří Karásek of Lvovice and Arnošt Procházka. The book brings neglected relations and facts that academic literary historiography is rather silent about, and brings various surprising contexts to light. It will entertain, but also serve as an attractive overview of interwar Czech literature, eg for the needs of grammar schools.