Petr Hruška: I Spied My Face
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: September 14, 2022, 18:00 – 21:00
On 8 September 1522, after an exhausting three-year journey, Seville saw the arrival of the “last wretched boat of the Magalhães fleet / overloaded with cloves / eighteen men / and a report / that the Earth has no edges and thus no rest.” Exactly 500 years later, on 8 September 2022, Spatřil jsem tvou tvář (I Spied Your Face), a new book of poetry by Petr Hruska, is released. It captures a fictitious, tragicomic journey – the boat created by the poet is as much exploratory as conquering, both wandering and mercenary, both a grand sailing ship and an incipient wreck, also evoking the famous medieval ship of fools, bereft of either direction or sense…
Petr Hruška will read from the collection.
The book will be “baptised” with music by Monika Načeva and words by František Hruška.
Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with publishers Host.