Reading: Arnost Lustig
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
25-3-1998 8:00 PM
End Date
25-3-1998 9:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 25, 1998, as part of the 29th Annual UND Writers Conference: “the use of [HISTORY],” Arnost Lustig reads from his work and discusses his experience as a writer and survivor of the Holocaust. Lustig reads in Czech and Jim McKenzie reads an excerpt from the English translation of The Unloved. Lustig also responds to audience questions about Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk, writing about historical events, and the emotions involved in writing about the Holocaust.
Introduced by Robin Silverman.
Reading: Arnost Lustig
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 25, 1998, as part of the 29th Annual UND Writers Conference: “the use of [HISTORY],” Arnost Lustig reads from his work and discusses his experience as a writer and survivor of the Holocaust. Lustig reads in Czech and Jim McKenzie reads an excerpt from the English translation of The Unloved. Lustig also responds to audience questions about Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk, writing about historical events, and the emotions involved in writing about the Holocaust.
Introduced by Robin Silverman.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1998/day2/1
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.