LIVE from Prague: Auster, Kral and 1968. Day One

Prague Writers’ Festival • 1 June 2008

inside, outside, both?
highlights
— Martin Belk

Natalia Gorbanevskaya receives the Roots in Time: The Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression

the conversation, “1968” notes:
“…it occurred to me that the inner and the outer could not be separated except by doing great damage to the truth”
Paul Auster reads a paragraph from his novel Moon Palace, as part of the conversation.

To listen, right-click the link and ’save-as’ here:

http:www.IamONE.co.uk/PaulAuster2008.aif

Petr Král (Czech Republic) on 1968 then and now:

“some of the craziness got saturated with wisdom and lost its edge. Do you feel that your imagination is [different] than the imagination of those who preceeded us?”

full coverage later today, as events unfold

*Czech translation to be clarified.