Literature
Program
Prague: Capital of the Twentieth Century? book launch and conversation
10 Jun 2013Setting out to recover the dreamworlds of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the “city of light,” Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris “the capital of the nineteenth century.”...
Jáchym Topol: Devil's Workshop
1 Jun 2013A young man grows up in a town with a sinister history. The concentration camp may have been liberated years ago but its walls still cast their long shadows and some of the inhabitants are quite...
Franz Kafka's The Castle by David Zane Mairowitz & Jaromír99
1 Jun 2013The protagonist, known simply as K., arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snow with a castle rising above it in a mist. Attempting to gain contact with the inhabitants of the castle and...
Czech Writer Jáchym Topol at the Hay Festival of Literature & the Arts
23 May 2013 - 2 Jun 2013Jáchym Topol will present his blackly comic award-winning novel The Devil´s Workshop at one of the most important literary events in the UK, the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts. On Saturday...
Martin Reiner at the Edinburgh European Literature Night
15 May 2013Edinburgh will celebrate European Literature Night for the second time with a smorgasbord of European writers, stories and chat. The Czech Republic will be represented by Martin Reiner who will read...
European Literature Night V
15 May 2013Now in its fifth year, and held simultaneously in capital cities across the continent, European Literature Night takes you on an enthralling journey across vivid cultural landscapes. Eight...
