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Aleš Palán and Jan Šibík: The Wilderness is the Best Place to Go Crazy

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: April 6, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00

Raději zešílet v divočině (The Wilderness is the Best Place to Go Crazy) is a book about recluses living in the Šumava. Some have built a shack in the forest, others live in caravans or in mountain solitude. Some can be reached by car, others on foot only. They are Šumava pilgrims and loners whose attitudes and lives are totally out of the ordinary. 

Via eight interviews with people living permanently outside civilisation, novelist Aleš Palán provides insights into a world of whose existence we know nothing. We encounter wild animals, cruel winters and even apparitions. The book, complemented by the photography of Jan Šibík (Czech Press Photo, Golden Prisma Award), is an exploration of secret corners of both the landscape and the human soul. Of long-term solitude and isolation. Of a parallel world that asks very unsettling questions of ours.

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