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VoiceofWisdom
As Michal Ajvaz says it is interesting
The bizarre and sometimes also cynical
for him to get acquainted with different
movement of images is typical and
literary receptions of his books
somehow natural in Ajvaz’s artistic
and moreover, he likes to meet first
manifestation-hisbooksarefilledwith
perceptions in foreign cities, where the
animals surfacing in miscellaneous
cityshowsitself,revealsitsmood.These
situations and spaces, sculptural works
impressionsplayquiteanimportantrole
emerging in forgotten or completely
in what he writes. Since many of the
inappropriatelocalities,andsoon.Even
stories in his books spontaneously arise
though his books are fantastical on the
from the spirit of foreign cities, let us
whole, the plots remain classic stories
wish and hope that Korea and its cities
(with a plot line and a denouement.) As
could bring a fresh, fruitful inspiration
he claims, his writing begins with some
▲MichalAjvazwiththeCzechlanguageHUFS
forhisfurtherwriting.
feeling,oftentiedtosomedefinitespace,
faculties
Native to Prague, Czech Republic,
and he even does not have any ideas
Michal Ajvaz (1949) ranks nowadays
books on philosophy and two books
to be expressed nor the topic or plot to
among the best and most popular
of philosophical correspondence (in
write about. His feelings recall for him
Czech writers at home and he
collaboration with Ivan M. Havel.)
a white fog, in which indistinct shapes
has already achieved a significant
His books were translated into several
andindividualstoriesflicker,wantingto
response and recognition for his works
languages(e.g.English,French,Russian,
be liberated from the fog, to be given a
internationally, too. He graduated
Polish, Hungarian, Slovenian, Swedish,
form. Even though it looks like it, there
from the oldest university in the
Dutch.)Oneofhisshortstoriesappeared
is nothing in his writing taken from his
country and Central Europe, Charles
in Korean translation in an anthology
dreams.Hebelievesthatdreamsarenot
University in Prague (established
Prague - City Loved by Writers
the only sphere from which to extract
by the Czech king and Holy Roman
published by Happy Reading Books in
imaginary and fantastic plots, but that
Emperor Charles IV in 1348,) which
2011.TheAmericaneditionofhisnovel
especiallyourconsciousnesscouldoffer
is one of HUFS partner universities.
TheGoldenAgereachedNo.1onUK’s
subjects of many fantastical novels.
He majored in Czech literature and
listofAmazonBestBooksof2010:Top
In his opinion, we are discovering the
aesthetics, then worked manually in
Ten Science Fiction/Fantasy Selections
sense of our existence by that which we
different occupations - as a janitor,
and made it also to No. 37 on US Top
have yet to enter, into “the opening of
night watchman, or pump attendant, as
100Editor’sChoice:BestBooksof2010.
unknownlands.”
well as an editor at the literary weekly
He was also awarded Jaroslav Seifert’s
Literarni noviny (Literary News) after
Prize for his novel Empty Streets (in
“To really leave one must leave
the Velvet revolution in 1989 (which
2005.)
everything behind and go smiling
meant the fall of communism in the
Michal Ajvaz started to publish when
and empty-handed with no thought
former Czechoslovakia.)He works as
he was forty, before that he had already
of return. Those who depart while
a researcher in the Czech Academy of
written surrealist texts (poetry and
counting on returning do not leave
Sciencesnow.
fiction.) His books are different stories
home, even if they reach the white
So far, Michal Ajvaz has published
intertwined, in some of them there are
citiesinthedepthsofthejungleand
sixteen books: four novels, a book of
people living on the border
repose on the marble of its squares:
poetry, short stories, a book of two
of the community or in
theirjourneysremainwovenintothe
novellas, four books of essays, four
direct conflict with it.
tissue of the objectives that create
the space of home; the shining
borders of foreign parts retreat
◀MichalAjvaz
beforethem.”
lecturingfor
HUFSstudents
(M.Ajvaz:TheOtherCity.Transl.
byG.Turner,DalkeyArchivePress,
◀◀Michal
Ajvazatthe
2009,p.162)
JaroslavSeifert’s
monument
Ivana.Bozdechova@seznam.cz
OCTOBER 2011

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