Václav Jamek: In This World
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: April 24, 2017, 19:00 – 21:00
Reading by Václav Jamek, the bilingual poet, critic, essayist and translator from French who lives between two countries.
The evening will begin with last year’s publication of essays that appeared in Listy between 2005 and 2015 and were gathered in the volume Na onom světě se tomu budeme smát (We’ll Laugh at It In This World): “Without much realising it, I had evidently found myself at a kind of crossroads. And it was a crossroads of dead-end streets. The people had their chimeras, which I didn’t share, while Czech intellectuals had different chimeras, which I didn’t share either. I didn’t really have anywhere to go with my own chimera. The life before me was limited, and I didn’t feel I’d be invited anywhere…”
Vlasta Dufková will discuss Václav Jamek and his “non-existent companion” Eberhardt Hauptbahnhof with Jamek himself.