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You are heartily invited to the literary evening of Viola Fischerová, the second from the cycle of five evenings within the Spring with 36ers which will be held on Wednesday, 24th February 2010 from 6 p.m. in the Montmartre Gallery, Řetězová 7, Prague 1

Viola Fischerová is a poet famous for work written – as the name of the collection suggests – in the “Indian hour”, from the nineties to the present. This evening, however, will present her current texts confronting her almost unknown, partly lost and now step by step rediscovered creation of her girlhood, the era of those born in 1936.

Verses will be read by the poet herself and her female alter ego, a student of acting at the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU), Marie Štípková. Martin C. Putna will present the literary and historical introduction.

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„I’ve run away. I’ve run away to Hrádeček. I’m here alone and I feel uneasy. Everything reminds me of the decades I’ve been through in this place. I like it here. It’s my refuge, my existential home, but again and again I realize there’s no going back, and that by now I’m not the same person I was when I wrote my plays, prepared my experimental meals, threw light-hearted parties, and organised secret dissident meetings. I’m older, sicker, wearier.“

Václav Havel:
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