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This is the full text of an interview given to the Swiss Journalist, Friedrich Rentsch, last winter by the Czech novelist Ludvík Vaculík, and published in the Hamburg newspaper Die Zeit on 12 January 1973. Vaculík is perhaps best known in the West as the chief author of the famous ‘Two Thousand Words’ manifesto on democratic socialism, which was published by a group of Czech writers in the summer of 1968 at the height of the Dubĉek government's crisis. He has also written two highly praised novels, The Axe (published in Czechoslovakia in 1966) and The Guinea-pigs, published abroad in 1971 and shortly to appear in English (see the extract that appeared in INDEX 2/1972 pp. 153-9). Vaculík is at present living in Prague and is still writing, but since his name is still on the black list of writers issued by the present government (see INDEX 2/1972, p. 45) his works cannot be published in Czechoslovakia. |
