/31. October 2010/
Children of the Revolution: politics and writing in today’s Czech Republic
A few days ago Radio Prague and the Czech Literature Portal got together to hold the first of a series of public literary discussions. David Vaughan’s guests were two of the Czech Republic’s best known literary figures, the novelist Petra Hůlová and the critic and translator Martin Machovec.
They were joined by an international audience at one of Prague’s most atmospheric literary dens, the Shakespeare and Sons bookshop (www.shakes.cz), tucked away in one of the ancient houses in Prague’s Lesser Quarter. The subject was politics and literature; twenty years after the fall of communism, are the two in any way compatible here in the Czech context?
Text + Audio on Radio Prague (28. 10. 2010)
