Publication details
Karel Kryl – mały wielki pieśniarz
| Title in English | Karel Kryl – little big singer-songwriter |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical (without peer review) |
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| Description | In 2018, the Czech Republic was commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. When the Warsaw Pact armies occupied Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, to suppress the Prague Spring reform movement, the Czech protest singer Karel Kryl, who wrote his famous song „Keep the Gate Closed, Little Brother“, released his first album (having the same name). At that time, he became the spokesman of the occupied nation. Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the death of the great Polish poet, 2018 was in Poland the Year of Zbigniew Herbert. Herbert was a Polish poet, essayist and moralist. Both these authors were attacking the political situation and interpersonal relationships of the Communist and later also the post-communist regimes in their own home countries. Original translations are included in the article. |