A Cup of Coffee with My Interrogator: The Prague Chronicles of Ludvík Vaculík

1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Peter Kussi ◽  
Ludvík Vaculík ◽  
George Theiner ◽  
Jan Brychta
Keyword(s):  
Ludvik Vaculik

Heroes Old and New

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Josef Škvorecký
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Milan Kundera ◽  
Vaclav Havel ◽  
Ludvik Vaculik

In the more ‘liberal’ sixties, Josef Škvorecký; became one of Czechoslovakia's top novelists and short story writers, having made his name with his first novel, The Cowards, which was banned shortly after publication in 1956. Now a leading emigrè publisher in Canada, he reflects here on the quality of some of the officially sanctioned prose that gets published in Prague while the works of Milan Kundera, Vàclav Havel, Ludvìk Vaculìk, Škvorecký; himself, and indeed most of the country's finest authors, are banned.

The Guinea Pigs of Ludvík Vaculík

1981 ◽  
pp. 307-315
Author(s):  
Bronislava Volek
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Pigs ◽  
Ludvik Vaculik

scholarly journals The long view: Ludvík Vaculík

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-98
Author(s):  
Ludvík Vaculík
Keyword(s):  
Ludvik Vaculik

scholarly journals Controversy: Why Go to Jail?

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Ludvìk Vaculìk ◽  
Vàclav Havel ◽  
Vàclav Havel
Keyword(s):  
Vaclav Havel ◽  
Decent People ◽  
House Arrest ◽  
Ludvik Vaculik ◽  
Repressive Regime

How are ordinary, decent people to react to the imposition of a repressive regime, how much should they risk in showing their opposition to it? These questions were raised by Ludvìk Vaculìk in a feuilleton he wrote last December, which brought an indignant reply from Vàclav Havel, as well as a dozen other dissidents. The controversy has now been given a poignant twist by the arrest of Vàvel, together with nine other Chartists. Earlier, he had for several months been under virtual house arrest (see p41).

My philosophers

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
Ludvík Vaculík
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Police Interrogation ◽  
50Th Birthday ◽  
Index Index ◽  
Ludvik Vaculik

Karel Kosík, a young Marxist philosopher, played an important role in the intellectual ferment which led to the abortive attempt to liberalise the Czechoslovak political system in 1968. Since the invasion in August that year he has been prevented from working in his field and from publishing his work. June 1967 Kosík celebrated his 50th birthday. His friend, Ludvík Vaculík, marked the occasion by writing a feuilleton which was included in ‘Padlock Publications’, a typescript literary collection circulated among proscribed intellectuals. Though no doubt unpopular with the authorities, Padlock has so far been tolerated by them, with the result that while people found copying these texts might get into trouble, the authors themselves have remained unscathed, though subject to frequent harassment, house searches and police interrogation. The arrest of the poet Jiři Gruša in June (see entry in Index/Index, p. 65) is an ominous sign that after five years of relatively untroubled existence, Padlock may be facing a more difficult future.

The Guinea Pigs by Ludvík Vaculík: Codes, Metaphors, and Compositional Devices

Slavic Review ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Bronislava Volek
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Guinea Pigs ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Alejo Carpentier ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Light Touch ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Ludvik Vaculik ◽  
Experimental Novel ◽  
Good Soldier

In this article I propose to undertake a semiotic analysis of a novel by a contemporary Czech underground writer, Ludvík Vaculík's Morčata (The Guinea Pigs). A semiotic reading of the relation between the semantic and formal levels of the text is particularly rewarding because this novel combines features of several genres ranging from children's literature to the realistic novel and the surrealistic novel. This study is intended as a contribution to the analysis of the multileveled novel in general.The Guinea Pigs is a unique modern blend reminiscent of the Latin American current of magic realism that we find in the works of Alejo Carpentier and Gabriel García Marquez. It is a highly experimental novel in which the author has reached the peak of his literary efforts thus far and includes himself in the tradition of the absurd, showing traces of dadaism and elements of surrealism and continuing the introspective existentialist line of Dostoevskii and Kafka, refreshed with a light touch of humor and an unpretentiously naive point of view reminiscent of Hašek's Good Soldier Švejk.

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