Menu Search VHL web CS

Mihail Sebastian: How I Became a Hooligan

Illustration
  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: October 5, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00

The scandal sparked by the publication in 1934 of the novel Two Thousand Years/How I Became a Hooliganby the then 27-year-old writer Mihail Sebastian exceeded the bounds of literature and fuelled the anti-Semitic passions of that era. The novel maps in quasi-diary form the events, social climate and atmosphere of Romania’s bohemia between 1922 and 1933. It also attempts to describe and delineate the status of Jews, the position of the individual against the masses and the intellectual against the world and explores the metaphysical subject of solitude. At the same time, this once scandalous and revolutionary book, long a classic, remains strikingly current to this day.

The book and its author will be discussed by translator Hana Herrmannová, philosopher and writer Ciprian Vâlcan and Professor Michael Finkenthal.

Jarmila Horáková and Jiří Našinec will provide interpretation into Czech. 

Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with the Romanian Cultural Institute and the publishers Herrmann & synové under the auspices of the Embassy of the State of Israel.

Share

Facebook | Twitter