Living Souls: Current Russian Culture and its Czech Connections I
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: February 12, 2015, 20:00 – 22:00
Significant moments in the Czech reception of Russian culture.The first evening in a lecture series focused on contemporary Russian culture with Russian Studies specialist Tomáš Glanc (Universität Zürich). Does Russian culture reach the Czech milieu in a sufficient, adequate and high-quality form?
What options are open to those who don’t wish to follow goings-on in Russia culture from Russian-language sources alone but are forced to depend on critics, translators, curators and distributors acting as intermediaries?
The reception of a foreign culture is anchored in tradition. In the Czech lands this primarily concerns the start of the 20th century and the First Republic with its interest in Russian Modernism. There was also the cultural intermediation of the 1960s, correcting the import of official Soviet productions. During normalisation the relationship to Russian culture was politicised but not destroyed. What do the tendencies we have observed in the last 25 years follow on from? And how?