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The Son-of-a-Narcissist-Mother’s Guide Book,
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Variace na Tzaru

Jan Škrdlík – VARIATIONS ON TZARA • The Son-of-a-Narcissist-Mother’s Guide Book

Variations on verses from Tristan Tzara’s poetry collection Approximate Man. Based on a fictional journey from planet Earth to “Seventh Heaven”, the author meets again with the five women who most significantly influenced his past life and then with his current partner Jana Rosie. But the author needs to penetrate to an even higher space in order to finally be able to connect with his Being Self... The title “Variations on Tzara” came from the fact that each of its poems begins with a quote of verse from the poetry collection “Approximate Man” (“L’Homme approximative”) to pay tribute to its author, Tristan Tzara. The subtitle of this novel in verse refers to the author’s experience with his own narcissistic mother. He unconsciously carried this as a model for choosing life partners later in adulthood. It was a long journey out of this toxic vicious cycle... The book is supplemented with illustrations by Jana Rosie Škrdlík Dvořáková.
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This English version was created between 2020 and 2024 from the original Czech edition (2020, ISBN 978-80-907914-0-4) by Thomas McComb, Lucien Zell, and the translation team (see Epilogue text). During its existence, the English version of the Variations on Tzara managed to inspire, for example, the Egyptian composer Ahmed Adel to create a number of compositions, which together with Richard Wilson’s recitation are available on the Internet: visit the video on YouTube
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Variace na Tzaru

Jan Škrdlík – VARIACIONES A TZARA • Guía de viaje del hijo de una madre narcisista

This is the same publication but in Spanish. Are you a Spanish speaker? Want to gift a Spanish speaker? Are you an advanced Spanish speaker and want to improve your Spanish even more?
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The Spanish version of Variations on Tzara began to be created immediately after the completion of the Czech version. However, this is not a translation of the “Czech original”. This poetic work takes on a life of its own in this parallel language. The verses sometimes differ from the Czech version, as the living Spanish language led to it. After all, since 2016, when the foundations of this work were laid, the author has written some poems simultaneously in both languages, even though most of the work was first composed in Czech. The fact that the English version of the Variations was created between 2020 and 2024, which was realized by the translation team of Thomas McComb, but at the same time led to certain changes in the already finished Spanish text as well.
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To order VARIACIONES A TZARA, ISBN 978-80-907914-5-9 online (PDF) or by mail (softcover) visit:

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Variace na Tzaru

Jan Škrdlík – VARIACE NA TZARU • Cestovní příručka syna narcistní matky

And finally the same publication, but in the original Czech language. Are you a native Czech speaker? Or do you want to gift a native Czech speaker? Are you an advanced Czech speaker and want to improve your Czech even more?
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To order VARIATIONS ON TZARA, ISBN 978-80-907914-4-2 online (PDF) or by mail (softcover) visit:

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