After the velvet revolution I think Vaklav Havel took over Czechoslovakia and then later the Czech Republic. There's a couple like instances in the late 60s where Kandera and Havel are like going back and forth in you know the paperlike arguing about the country's relationship to communism or Russia. So when this book was published it was 1984 and well he wrote it in 82 and then it was published in 84 in French first Lünstentenbleu Lägerterre de Lietre beautiful. Then in 1985 it was Published in Czech for the first time but it was actually published in by like a Toronto publisher because you know it wasn't going