Beatrice Landovská: While Mum Was Sleeping

In her memoir Když máma spala (While Mum Was Sleeping) the writer Beatrice Landovská brings to life the years 1976 to 1979, revisiting her family and Czech society in the period when the regime’s crackdown on Charter 77 began. She describes the events through the eyes of a girl who has just left the relative safety of primary school and is unable to get a grasp on what is happening around her. Both parents disappear from the horizon at one point, leaving only the curse of her father’s fame and his general reprobation to contend with. The author’s appearance by Beatrice Landovská will be moderated by Jáchym Topol.