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Serhiy Zhadan – How to Write About War Today

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: May 9, 2019, 19:00 – 21:00

War is above all a political, social and security matter. However, it is also a subject that resonates deeply in culture, particularly in literature. Unlike Ernest Hemingway, for instance, the most famous Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan has never fought. However, he was been visiting the front regularly since 2014 as a humanitarian volunteer. War has left a deep imprint on his intimate poetry and socially-conscious prose. The hero of his most recent novel Boarding School, a teacher from a small town in the Donbass, where the army of a foreign state arrives unexpectedly, experiences war.

Discussing how contemporary literature reflects the theme of war will be Zhadan and the journalist and Radio Free Europe contributor Igor Pomerancev.

The evening will conclude with a theatrical rendition by Brno’s Agadir Theatre of Music and Poetry of poems from Zhadan’s collection The History of Culture at the Beginning of This Century, translated by Alexej Sevruk.

The event will take place in Ukrainian. Interpretation into Czech will be provided.

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