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Petr Borkovec – Nobody Loves a Man Who Burns Himself to Death in Front of a Mirror

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

Reading from the poetry collection Herbář k čemusi horšímu (Herbarium for Something Worse) and the book of short stories Lido di Dante.

Herbarium for Something Worse, a collection from the illustrious contemporary poet and prose author Petr Borkovec, is something between an atlas and a rubbish dump. 

The short story collection Lido di Dante takes us to a small resort a few kilometres from Ravenna in which the streets are named after characters in The Divine Comedy. It’s a spot that is dazzling and gorgeous (the sea and the beach, water birds in lagoons, an institute for the study of dunes and a wonderfully sunny coastal pine forest) and also dark (an ancient nudist beach, aggressive naturists, oil drilling, transvestites, prostitutes, bars full of thieves and the scary pine forest in which Dante wrote The Inferno). Twelve texts create a small guidebook to a spot in which light and shade alternate a tad faster than we are used to.

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