Now seeing the world around her in a different light Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian. At times eerie disturbing and always beautiful Valeries week of wonders is truly a wondrous journey. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Czech.
I ts one of the ironies attached to Jaromil Jirešs gleefully gothic and priapic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders that it was made just as Czechoslovakia succumbed to the gray strictures of normalization following the Soviet invasion in 1968. Vítězslav Nezval Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. The book is an allegorical fairy tale of horror that is characterized by the lack of narrative sequence and bold experimental storytelling. At times eerie disturbing and always beautiful Valeries week of wonders is truly a wondrous journey.