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Big Book Thursday – Václav Havel: Notes of the Accused

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  • Where: Municipial Library Prague, Mariánské náměstí 1/98, 110 00 Praha 1
  • When: October 13, 2016, 17:00 – 19:00

Ceremonial presentation of a facsimile of a previously unpublished 1977 diary kept by Václav Havel.

For a long time, nobody had any idea that the fragmented diary entries, written during his time in investigative remand, existed. Václav Havel never mentioned them and rarely returned to the subject of his experiences in prison. They were not discovered until almost two years ago, when David Dušek began sorting out the estate of his grandfather Zdeněk Urbánek – a translator, essayist and lifelong advisor and friend of Václav Havel.

The book Zápisky obviněného (Notes of the Accused) is a collection of essays by philosopher Martin Palouš, Canadian translator Paul Wilson, Václav Havel Library editor Anna Freimanová and diplomat and psychologist Michael Žantovský, who will attempt to uncover and elucidate Havel’s diary entries, which are frequently abbreviated.

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