We invite you to join us for an evening of poetry readings and discussion about the Czech Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, the grand old man of Czech poetry and a poet of death and desire, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), in his birthplace of Žižkov. Seifert was a poet of the people, whose memorial stands at the Lipanská tram stop. He was also a key figure in Poetism, an important poetic and artistic movement in Czechoslovakia that formed part of the avant-garde.
During the evening, we will discuss the section “The Plague Column” (pages 95–104) from Jaroslav Seifert’s poetry collection The Plague Column (Morový sloup).
The discussion will take place in English. We encourage you to read the poem(s) in your native language and bring your own unique perspectives and interpretations to the discussion. Sakari Happonen will bring a Finnish translation of Seifert’s The Plague Column (Ruttopylväs, translated by Hannu Ylilehto, 1985) to the evening. It is currently the only Czech poetry collection intended for adult readers to have been translated into Finnish.
Akce proběhne v angličtině, více informací zde.
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