Name: Veronika Tuckerová: Dissidents like Havel felt their prison experiences were scripted by Kafka
Uploaded: 2024-07-26T09:07:42+00:00
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Description: Veronika Tuckerová has been teaching Czech Studies at Harvard University for the past decade. But she has also done extensive research into the Prague German-language author Franz Kafka. Indeed, the academic is currently preparing a book entitled Reading Kafka in Prague: The Reception of Franz Kafka in Czechoslovakia, which mainly looks at changing perceptions of

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Veronika Tuckerová has been teaching Czech Studies at Harvard University for the past decade. But she has also done extensive research into the Prague German-language author Franz Kafka. Indeed, the academic is currently preparing a book entitled Reading Kafka in Prague: The Reception of Franz Kafka in Czechoslovakia, which mainly looks at changing perceptions of the writer in the communist period, when his works were for the most part banned. I spoke to Veronika Tuckerová at our Prague studios.

“What led me originally to Kafka is simply being from Prague and reading some of his works, which I had access to, even though he was not published in the ‘70s and ‘80s, when I was growing up.

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Author: Ian Willoughby