United States
Guest of the book fair Svět knihy Praha 2024
Jontahan Bolton is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, his main focus is on the relationship between literature and political power: the mechanisms of political repression and oppression, dissent, protests, dissident movements and the complex negotiations between repressive regimes and the writers which these regimes seek to control. He is the author of Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism (2012; Czech 2015). His translations of Czech poetry and prose have appeared, among other journals, in Circumference, B O D Y, Best European Fiction or Modern Poetry in Translation. He has edited and translated book collections by Ivan Wernisch (In the Puppet Gardens: Selected Poems, 1963–2005, 2007) and Petr Hruška (Everything Indicates: Selected Poems, 2023).
![](data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="40" height="24" viewBox="0 0 40 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-calendar"><rect x="3" y="4" width="18" height="18" rx="2" ry="2"></rect><line x1="16" y1="2" x2="16" y2="6"></line><line x1="8" y1="2" x2="8" y2="6"></line><line x1="3" y1="10" x2="21" y2="10"></line></svg>)
Book World Prague 2024
19:00 - 19:50
Univerzita Karlova, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Czech, English
Two key works of the 1970s – Vaculík's A Czech Dreambook and Rozner's Seven Days to the Funeral. Two very different ways the authors dealt with being excluded...
Friday, 24. 5. 2024
For the best web experience - to make search work, to remember what you have in your cart, to easily find out the status of your order, not to bother you with inappropriate advertising, and to avoid having to log in every time.
Therefore, we need your consent to processing of cookies, ie small files that are temporarily stored in your browser. Thanks for giving it to us and helping us improve the site.