Author Zdeněk Volný dedicated the eighteenth volume of A Wanderer through the Czech Past to Czech literary creation in the interwar period. This twenty-year period still remains its peak period: after overcoming the depression caused by the horrors of the First World War, literature and art developed in a number of directions based on different artistic and political ideas of authors and individual literary groups. The so-called proletarian poetry led by Jiří Wolker emerged from the severe post-war poverty. The opening of more promising life perspectives then stimulated the emergence of charming poeticism and other directions, such as surrealism. The book presents the stories of the greatest figures of interwar poetry and prose: Nobel Prize winner Jaroslav Seifert, Vítězslav Nezval, Konstantin Biebl or Vladislav Vančura, and also contains a chapter on contemporary art. In the first two chapters, the text also returns to the Czech decadent movement and its central figures, Jiří Karásk from Lvovice and Arnošt Procházko. The book brings to the surface neglected relationships and facts about which academic literary historiography is rather silent, and brings to light all kinds of surprising connections. It will entertain, but also serve as an attractively presented overview of interwar Czech literature, e.g. for the needs of grammar schools.