Ladislav Novák

Mr. Hadlíz as Plaything
for Those Condemned
to Death

We are all condemned to death. Mr. Hadlíz is well aware of this. (Only we often don't realize it; we forget...) Clowning and dissimulating, he invites us to have fun with him. To make our forgetting even more profound? To easily get us under his control? Under no circumstances should we trust him too much.

—He cannot grant us clemency. The sentence is irrevocable. For us there is no clemency. Take note: of the persons in the lower right-hand corner, only their shadows remain, as it was with several victims of Hiroshima.

Ladislav Novák
in The Transformations of mr. Hadlíz