The novel by the most popular Czech writer Jiri Kratochvil “The Immortal History, or the Life of Sonia Trotskaya-Zammler” has the subtitle “carnival novel” for a reason. Through the fate of the main character, who, born in 1900, lives through the entire 20th century, the postmodernist author shows - sometimes extremely grotesquely - a motley kaleidoscope of events in modern history. A long string of characters, both fictional and historical, passes before the reader (the last Austrian emperor Franz Joseph and the first Czechoslovak president Tomas Masaryk, Russian revolutionaries Lenin and the heroine's namesake Trotsky, later Hitler and Stalin...) Sonya Trotskaya-Zammler is not going to die even at the beginning XXI century: she has yet to convey to the people of our days an important message from the wisest people of the century before last, once put into it by the famous Doctor Charcot. In this way, Jiri Kratochvil is trying to restore the “connection of times” that seems to have been largely lost in the modern era.