One more Kuběna on Groundhog Day!
January 25, 2010
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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Letter to Gustáv Husák – samizdat essay
„The overall question, then, is this: What profound intellectual and moral impotence will the nation suffer tomorrow, following the castration of its culture today? I fear that the baneful effects on society will outlast by many years the particular political interests that gave rise to them. So much more guilty, in the eyes of history, are those who have sacrificed the country’s spiritual future for the sake of their present power interests.“
Václav Havel:
Letter to Gustáv Husák – samizdat essay
April 8, 1975
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