Literary evening - Josef Topol
- Where: Montmartre Gallery
- When: March 31, 2010, 18:00 – 20:00
Poet who is the most significant playwright of Czech lyricism, just like Václav Havel is the most significant playwright of Czech irony. Poet who was carefully hidden for most of his life behind a playwright. Poet of grandeur and poet of anxiety. Poet of Filip Topol and Jáchym Topol.
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.
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Speech on receiving the Indira Gandhi Prize, New Delhi
„Many Europeans and Americans today are painfully aware of the fact that Euro-American civilization has undermined and destroyed the autonomy of non-European cultures. They feel it was their fault, and thus feel they have to make amends through a kind of emotional identification with others, through accommodating them, through trying to ingratiate themselves, through a longing to “help” them in one way or another. To my mind, this is a false way of going about it… It contains… the same familiar feeling of superiority… It is inverted colonialism. It is an intellectual spasm. I think we will all help one another best if we make no pretences, remain ourselves, and simply respect and honour one another, just as we are. “
Václav Havel:
Speech on receiving the Indira Gandhi Prize, New Delhi
February 8, 1994
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