Plant the poplars tightly around the pond
You are heartily invited to a literary evening of Josef Topol (the name means “poplar” in English), the third of the cycle of five evenings within the Spring with 36ers which will be held on Wednesday, 31st March 2010 from 6 p.m. in the Montmartre Gallery, Řetězová 7, Prague 1.
Josef Topol’s poetry remained the poet’s privatissimo throughout his entire life - the publication was executed only in the nineties. His poetry turns away completely from contemporary reality, seeking refuge in proudly archaic and aristocratic language of poets of Romanticism. It is a poetry tracing step by step the author’s mental world from teenage exaltation to feelings of darkness and hopelessness in the eighties, where only spiritual hope stands in resistance, despite everything. Words slimness and anxiety are the constants in his poetry.
Martin C. Putna will present the literary and historical introduction. The texts will be read by DAMU (Academy of Performing Arts) students Jiří Suchý z Tábora and Marie Štípková. The poet will be represented by his guardian angel, Vlastimil Harapes.
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Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
„If I consider the problem as that which the world is turning me into – that is, as a tiny screw in a giant machine, deprived of human identity – then there is really nothing I can do. Obviously I cannot put a stop to the destruction of the globe, the growing stupidity of nations and the repoduction of thousands of new thermonuclear bombs. If, however, I consider it as that which each of us originally is, or rahter what each of us – irrespective of the state of the world – has the basic potential to become, which is to say an autonomous human being, capable of acting responsibly to and for the world, then of course there is a great deal I can do.“
Václav Havel:
Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
March 6, 1982
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