The Fiendish Temptation of Václav Havel, or I Hid It Somewhere
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: October 4, 2023, 19:00 – 21:00
Václav Havel lost his account of his first imprisonment after the publication of Charter 77, and the temptations he had to deal with in jail, soon after it was written, so had no chance to correct it. The writer’s raw, intimate and very powerful notes, accompanied by essays by Petr Blažek, David Dušek, Anna Freimanová and editor Michael Žantovský, were published as Někam jsem to ukryl (I Hid it Somewhere) by the Václav Havel Library in 2021, with the book selling out almost immediately.
What was it about these recently discovered manuscripts that grabbed historian Jiří Suk? And how did David Dušek find this manuscript?
Zuzana Stivínová will read excerpts from the book.
A reissue of I Hid It Somewhere is coming out on the eve of the 87th anniversary of Václav Havel’s birth.