LITERATURE:

This section is dedicated to the work of some formerly banned authors from the alternative culture.

Poems from the underground by Egon Bondy

[Czech only] E.B. is the enfant terrible of the Czech literature. He's known as a legend of underground, radical Maoist and a holder of PhD in philosophy; but only in Czechoslovakia. And even there, he belongs to the "rare" literature that one has to search for in the stores.

The poems are a selection of his work from the 60's. Among these, one can find his typical simple rhymes as well as long non-harmonical pieces, all commenting the political situation and the life in the regime. However, also quite a few love poems can be found there! Czech only.

Visual poetry of Václav Havel

[English] Not many people knows that our current president also created great visual poems -- just with his typewriter.

When I was transcribing the poems into the computer code it was a real challenge, but I hope I succeeded. A selection from the series Antikody is available in both Czech and English (as far as I know this is the only existing "translation" ;-))

Surreal Visions of Vladimir Wernisch

(N/A yet, but I do have them on disk, just bear with me)