Monodrama III. Jan Hanč – Events

June’s evening in a series of staged readings of works by Czech and foreign writers will recall the work of one of the most conscientious artists in Czech literature, the poet and prose author Jan Hanč, the 50th anniversary of whose death will take place in July. This evening will spotlight his short prose texts collected together under the title Události (Events) (1995) and mediate his unique view of the world to visitors/listeners; it is a perspective that is thoroughly exacting and absent of all poetic ballast, but nevertheless (or perhaps therefore) it is not lacking in genuine poetry.