Interviews with 36ers and Silver Wind

Where: Montmartre Gallery
When: June 2, 2010, 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.

VHL Notebooks 2010/2: Interviews with the 36ers and Silver Wind May 25, 2010

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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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