Ylljet Aliçka – We Think, Work and Live Like Revolutionaries!
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: October 22, 2015, 19:00 – 21:00
Reading by the Albanian novelist.
Aliçka’s short stories reveal the everyday reality of life in Albania in the period of communism and after its collapse.
The author draws on his own experiences, allowing for a deeper understanding of the rawness, absurdity and cruelty of life in a country that has experienced a specific historic development incomparable with that of other European countries and where any deviation from norms established by party ideology was punished draconically. Listening to foreign music or reading banned literature meant not just losing one’s job or being expelled from one’s studies – even in the 1980s the accused ended up with long sentences in prison or labour camps...
The book will be introduced by J. E. Riza Poda, ambassador of the Albanian Republic. The evening will be hosted by Hana Tomková, who will also interpret. Petr Čulík will read in Czech. In cooperation with the publishing house Nakladatelství Petr Štengl.
Related photographs
- Ylljet Aliçka at Václav Havel Library October 26, 2015