Ivan Martin Jirous – Mága
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: November 26, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
“Baptism” of the book Mága and a project to digitalise Jirous’s work.
The main subject of Mága (The Wizard) is the poet Ivan Martin Jirous. The book is an unusual combination of diary entries by Jirous’s daughter Františka Jirousová and her friend Jana Bauerová. They called Jirous Mág (meaning wizard or magician), a play on his nickname Magor (madman), and the book records events in Prostřední Vydří, Prague and Stará říše between 1997 and 2011.
The diaries map moments of Jirous’s life that other media were unable to capture, in particular everyday trifles and habits, such as his relationship to animals or how music moved him. The entries show the Jirous of the 1990s in a different light from how he was then seen by the public – as a drunk and provocateur. Both writers will take part in the presentation.
In the second part of the evening we will introduce a project of the Municipal Library in Prague under which it is issuing all of Jirous’s poetry as e-books. Richard Olehla will outline its discuss plans and prospects.
Aleš Palán will moderate.