One more Kuběna on Groundhog Day!
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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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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