Literary evening - Václav Havel
- Where: Montmartre Gallery
- When: June 2, 2010, 18:00 – 19:30
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.
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A Word about Words – samizdat essay
„Besides, to be wary of words and of the horrors that might slumber inconspicuously within them – isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual? I recall that André Glucksmann once spoke in Prague about the need for intellectuals to emulate Cassandra: to listen carefully to the words of the powerful, to be watchful of them, to forewarn them of their danger, and to proclaim their dire implications or the evil they might invoke.“
Václav Havel:
A Word about Words – samizdat essay
July 25, 1989
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