Jan Vytřísal — portrait

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About

I write fiction and essays.
I work as an attorney.

I write fiction and essays about how language rewrites responsibility. Alongside writing I work as an attorney in Brno and develop tools for legal practice.

In fiction and essays I follow the borderland where legal and behavioural readings of reality run into what the language we use about things rewrites into the possible and the impossible.


Bio

Mgr. Jan Vytřísal — attorney and negotiator. Publishes essays regularly — the Topology of the Real cycle.

Alongside writing he works as an attorney-at-law registered with the Czech Bar Association under no. 20461. Co-founder and partner of the law firm IUSTORIA in Brno. Specialises in dispute strategy, commercial negotiation and mediation.

Before moving to law, he spent nine years as a presenter and editor in radio. The experience with live speech and the structure of conversation now informs his work with disputes, negotiations and text.

In his work and in his writing he draws on behavioural economics (Kahneman, Tversky), game theory (Schelling), developmental psychology (Kegan, Vygotsky), attachment theory (Bowlby) and strategic legal practice — as a practitioner who uses frames that hold up in real situations.

Father of two sons. Brno is home.

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