Paul Wilson will discuss his recent translation of Bohumil Hrabal's The Gentle Barbarian. He will be joined in conversation by Esther Peters.
May 26, 2021 at 6 PM CDT
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About the Book
The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal’s moving homage to Vladimír Boudník, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. He left behind a large body of innovative work and a larger-than-life legend. This book takes us to the heart of Boudnik’s creative drive: his gift for infusing the objects and events of everyday life with transcendent magic, and his passion for sharing his ideas and his art with anyone willing to listen.
Paul Wilson is an award-winning freelance writer, magazine editor, radio producer and translator. He has translated major works by Josef Škvorecký, Václav Havel, and Ivan Klíma into English. His other translations of Bohumil Hrabal include: I Served the King of England, Mr. Kafka and Other Tales From the Time of the Cult; and All My Cats. He lives in Ontario.
Esther Peters received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2014. In 2015 she returned to the University as Outreach and Campus Programing Coordinator for the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, where she is currently serving as the Center’s Associate Director.
