Events: June 2010

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Literary evening - Václav Havel  02/06/10 18:00

Poet of civic and everyday matters. Poet of Cafés and embankments. Poet of hated America. Poet almost quenched by a playwright, dissident, thinker and president. Poet who for all that survived. The cycle will recall the work of five most significant authors of the group, five non-conforming teenagers of the 50s: Jiří Kuběna, Viola Fischerová, Josef Topol, Věra Linhartová and at the end also contemporary texts of Václav Havel himself. Více

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Interviews with 36ers and Silver Wind  02/06/10 18:00

The second volume of the Václav Havel Library Notebooks offers selected works from Interviews with 36ers and Silver Wind magazines. These magazines were issued by the teenage circle around young Václav Havel (Jiří Kuběna, Alena Wagnerová, Pavel Švanda, Radim Kopecký and others) in four typed copies in years 1953 and 1954 . The works come out in a print for the very first time.  Více

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Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter

„Once you’re here, however, whether you want to or not, you have to ask the question: does all of this have a meaning, and if so, what?… Ultimately, I can only find an answer – a positive answer – within myself, in my general faith in the meaning of things, in my hope. What, in fact, is man responsible to? What does he relate to? What is the final horizon of his actions, the absolute vanishing point of everything he does, the undeceivable “memory of Being”, the conscience of the world and the final “court of appeal”? What is the decisive standard of measurement, the background or the field of each of his existential experiences? And likewise, what is the most important witness or the secret sharer in his daily conversations with himself, the thing that – regardless of what situation he has been thrown into – he incessantly inquires after, depends upon, and toward which his actions are directed, the thing that, in its omniscience and incorruptibility, both haunts and saves him, the only thing he can trust in and strive for? “

Václav Havel:
Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
August 7, 1980