PT Journal AU Sidakova Fialova, A TI Rich but underappreciated. Zizkov and normalization in Simona Bohata's prose Everyone is embarrassing SO Bohemica Olomucensia PY 2023 BP 170 EP 177 VL 14 IS 3 DI 10.5507/bo.2022.040 DE Simona Bohata; normalization; Zizkov; contemporary Czech prose AB The study is devoted to Simona Bohata's second prose book Vsichni sou trapny (Everybody is Embarrassing). In the context of the evaluation of the novel, the study reflects more generally on the popularity of books with the theme of normalization. We can see a certain decline of interest in this topic in recent years as one of the reasons why Simona Bohata's prose is not very successful among readers, despite the positive reviews and its undoubted literary qualities. ER