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Jacques Rupnik Reflects on Central Europe in New Collection

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 18, 2018, 17:00 – 19:00

Střední Evropa Je Jako Pták S Očima Vzadu (Central Europe is Like a Bird With Eyes in the Back of its Head) offers Jacques Rupnik’s view of Czech history and politics and more than anything a careful analysis and monitoring of the causes and results of various events, ranging from the creation of Czechoslovakia to contemporary positions on migration and the European Union.

The book is a selection of his most important reflections. Most of the texts are appearing in Czech for the first time and a number of his lectures are now published in full. Rupnik follows the domestic scene in the Central European and European context with an outsider’s distance but also an extensive familiarity with internal matters, with an interest in and understanding of the country in which he grew up. Thanks to his overview, the analyst, recognised both in the Czech Republic and internationally, explores a number of deep-rooted stereotypes and narratives. He also places in the appropriate context several myths, beginning with the fateful years ending in the number eight in Czechoslovak history, to which he devotes the book’s foreword.

Karel Hvížďala and Jiřina Šiklová will discuss the essay collection with Jacques Rupnik while Michael Žantovský will moderate the debate.

Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with publishers Novela bohemica.

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