Events: June 2010 May July
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
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
Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
„So-called contradictions between different schools of thought do not bother me in the least, and it doesn’t seem at all perverse to conduct oneself quite “situationally” in that regard. If a certain term, or terminology or theory seems apt in a given situation or context, I have no compunctions whatsoever about exploiting it to the full ( and I don’t mind if it makes me seem like an epigone). At the same time, however, I don’t feel the least bit bound by any “allegiance”.“
Václav Havel:
Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
May 1, 1981
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