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The Vaclav Havel Library invites you to a literary evening of Jiří Kuběna. The first from the cycle of five evenings within the Spring with 36ers will to be held on 2nd February 2010 from 6 p.m. in the Montmartre Gallery, Řetězová 7, Prague 1.

Texts, mostly from the period of 36ers, i.e. from the early fifties, are read by the poet and poet’s teenage alter ego. His alter ego is represented by a student of acting at the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU), Jiří Suchý z Tábora. Literary and historical introduction about the context of Jiří Kuběna’s poetry will be presented by his long-term work commentator, Martin C. Putna. In the course of the evening also a catalogue of Jiří Kuběna’s art exhibition will be introduced, Masks, Drawings and Paintings, published as the first volume of the second year of the Vaclav Havel Library Notebooks.

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„It’s as though I were constantly expecting someone to visit. But who? A strange and beautiful woman who admires me?… I have only one explanation: I’m constantly preparing for the last judgment, for the highest court from which nothing can be hidden… I’m obviously assuming that the supreme judge is a stickler like me.“

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Diary entry for 5 December 2005, To the Castle and Back
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