Meeting with Stone Dreams author Akram Aylisi
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: April 11, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
Meeting with the work of Azerbaijani novelist Akram Aylisi, whose hotly discussed novel Stone Dreams was last year published in a Czech translation (by Alexandra Stelibská).
In the book Aylisi describes the persecution of Armenians in Azerbaijan at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, leading to an avalanche of bitter criticism and even the burning of his books. The author had, however, been aiming to achieve the opposite – reconciliation, atonement forgiveness and the hope of peaceful coexistence.
Despite its eloquent, appellative tone, the book is a poetic text that succeeds not only in conveying the bitterness of conflict but also the subtlety of a deep personal experience of landscape and home. The evening will be chaired by Emil Soulejmanov.
The evening is co-organised by the Václav Havel Library, the Czech Association of Ukrainian Studies Specialists, the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the Bratislava Faculty of Arts and People in Need.