A Cup of Coffee with My Interrogator (eBook)

The Prague Chronicles of Ludvik Vaculik

Ludvik Vaculik (Autor)

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2017
146 Seiten
Readers International (Verlag)
9781887378109 (ISBN)

Infos

Author of the radical 2000 Words manifesto for writers during the Prague Spring of 1968, Ludvk Vaculk was banned from all official publishing after the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in the decades until the fallof communism with the Velvet Revolution of 1989. However, as founding editor of the Padlock Editions of informally circulated typescripts, he was central to maintaining independent writing and ideas in the Czechlanguage. This pioneering collection of witty and ironical short essays in the classic Czech genre known as feuilletons, or chronicles, show Vaculk's philosophy, honesty and humor.';He is the night watchman at a temporarily shut-down enterprise whose product is the national soul.'Los Angeles TimesAfter the Velvet Revolution confirmed his importance as an independent thinker and cultural figure, Vaculk continued his refusal to subscribe to accepted conventions. ';Democracy has made me a poor democrat', he wroteof the new Czech age of consumer culture, media sound bites and public relations. At his death in 2015 he chose an appropriate motto for his tombstone in the country village he always called home: ';I was here and maybe I shall return.

Inhalt

Translator’s Foreword by George TheinerIntroduction by Václav HavelFree to Use a Typewriter My Philosophers The Genie May Day  Good News?A Cup of Coffee with My InterrogatorFatal Illness  Funeral of a Spokesman On Heroism Jonas and the Monster The Spring Is Here How to Survive 1984 Fences  Thus Spake Švejk My Table at the Belvedere  Walking down Příkopy Coffee-house Culture  The Trail of the Lawman My Birthday Present A Day in August A Few Words of Advice for the British Government   Words . . . POSTSCRIPT:  Glasnost  About the Translator About Readers International

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2017
• Einführung: Vaclav Havel
• Übersetzer: George Theiner
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: ironical • relevant to today • witty
• ISBN-13: 9781887378109 / 9781887378109