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A CUP OF COFFEE WITH MY INTERROGATOR IBD

LUDVIK VACULIK / GEORGE THEINER
READERS INTERNATIONAL
05 / 2017
9780930523350
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These witty and ironical short essays in the classic Czech genre known as feuilletons, or chronicles, show Ludvik Vaculik',s philosophy, honesty and humor. His work, in George Theiner',s stylishátranslation, will evoke a powerful response todayáfromáEnglish-language readers wondering how to think clearly and keep their valuesáin confusing times.Author of the radical 2000 Words manifesto for writers during the Prague Spring of 1968, Ludvik Vaculik was banned from all official publishing after the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia duringátwoádecades until the fall of communism with the Velvet Revolution of 1989. However, as founding editor of the "Padlock Editions" of informally circulated typescripts, he was central to maintaining independent writing and ideas in the Czech language.After the Velvet Revolution confirmed his importanceáas an independent thinkeráand cultural figure, Vaculik continued his refusal to subscribe to accepted conventions. ',Democracy has made me a poor democrat', he wrote of the new Czech age of consumer culture, media sound bites and public relations.áá