Slovo úvodem - Ljudmila

for books? A discussion with travel writers
from the two cultures.
13.00 – 13.50 Literary Cafe (balcony)
Urban themes in Contemporary Prose
Hosted by: Matej Bogataj. Participants: Andrej
Blatnik, Aleš Kozár, Mojca Kumerdej,
Andrej E. Skubic, Jáchym Topol.
How does the city inspire authors in a culture
with a very short urban tradition? Is opting
for urban speech an automatic decision, or
a way of rebelling against traditional writings
focused more on the countryside and
village life rather than on towns? Are towns
too small, or have they grown too large already?—Both
Andrej E. Skubic and Jáchym
Topol have focused on a single part of town
in their books.
14.00 Movie – right wing 4
Film: Oda Prešernu (An Ode to the Poet)
Director: Martin Srebotnjak. 2000, 100’
Miha, a poet whom no one takes seriously,
earns his living by writing cheap advertising
slogans. This outsider poet of the new
age gets commissioned to write an ode to the
famous Slovenian poet Prešeren, for the occasion
of the national celebration, due to the
200th anniversary of Prešeren’s birth. Who
was Prešeren, what did he drink and what
sort of women did he like? A comedy can
begin.
15.00 – 15.50 Literary Hall (right wing)
Literary magazines
Hosted by: Primož Repar (Apokalipsa). Participants:
Evald Flisar (Sodobnost), Urban
Vovk (Literatura), Marek Sečkař (Host),
Joachim Dvorak (Labyrint revue).
Literary magazines offer various opportunities
for cooperation between national literatures;
these will be discussed by the editors
of leading Slovenian magazines Sodobnost,
Literatura and Apokalipsa. Their Czech counterparts
will complete the picture.
16.00 Kino Evald, Národní třída 28, Prague 1,
www.cinemart.cz
Film: Predmestje (The Suburbs). Director:
Vinko Möderndorfer. 2004, 90’
Marjan and his group of friends are disturbed
by a young foreign couple moving into their
neighbourhood. Their secret filming of the
couple reveals their own attitude of always
blaming others for their misfortune. The
Suburbs is a film about the rise of xenophobia
and nationalism. It is a story of the suburbs of
the human soul.
17.00 – 17.50 Big Hall (central hall)
Women Writing
Hosted by: Stanislava Repar Chrobáková.
Participants: Mojca Kumerdej, Maja Novak,
Alexandra Berková, Magdaléna Platzová.
Women’s writing is an inconspicuous, perhaps
even obscured thread in Slovenian
literature. Recently, however, a number of
women authors have become prominent. Two
of them will share their thoughts with their
Czech colleagues.
20.00 – 22.00 Café Montmartre,
Řetězová 7, Prague 1
Literature live
Dane Zajc & Janez Škof, Maja Vidmar, Milan
Jesih, Mojca Kumerdej, Andrej Rozman-Roza,
Maja Novak; accompanied by Jože Šalej on
the accordion.
The final readings to close Slovenia’s presentation
in Prague will unite authors of different
generations and esthetic persuasions.
Also the accordion, the archetypal musical
instrument of Slovenian folklore, can sound
in many different ways!
23.00 – 24.00 Palác Akropolis, Kubelíkova
27, Prague 3, www.palacakropolis.cz
Poetry and music: Primož Čučnik, Gregor
Podlogar, Tone Škrjanec
There is a time-honored tradition of association
between literature and other arts. In
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