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American Spring at the Václav Havel Library: Philip Roth – Great American Storyteller

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: May 15, 2019, 19:00 – 21:00

On May 22 a year will have passed since the death of Philip Roth (born 1933), one of the most important post-war US novelists. His life and extensive oeuvre, his close relationship to Czechoslovakia and more will be discussed by Hana Ulmanová, an expert on modern American literature, Jiří Hanuš, translator of 12 Roth novels, Ivan Klíma, who was friendly with Roth from the early 1960s on and Irena Pavlásková, who is directing an adaptation of Roth’s novel The Prague Orgy.

Moderated by Jan Zelenka.

Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with the American Spring festival.

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