Literary evening - Viola Fischerová

Where: Montmartre Gallery
When: February 24, 2010, 18:00

Poetess appreciated by nobody in her youth. Poetess shining as star only after her return from emigration. Poetess of old age and old women, leaving and parting. Poetess of fairy tales. Poetess of animals. 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.

I tuned my Viola as deeply as possible February 8, 2010

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

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