what secrets lie behind these memos. find out immersive experience and explore fascinating world cultural heritage sites. d w world heritage for sixty get the. welcome to arts twenty one. almost three decades have passed since the collapse of the soviet union arch twenty one is on a journey to explore the literary world of post soviet republics or traveling to three capitals prague bucharest and tbilisi what they have in common is their socialist history where they differ is in their development since one thousand nine hundred ninety. a majestic

console narrow alleyways and numerous stones and towers and impressive bridges spanning the top of. prague is a jewel with the middle any much history a city on the moon. the dreariness of the commons deraa is history. now prague is a popular destination for tourists from around the globe. to raise a similar to move on it's here the right to observe the hustle and bustle in the czech capital from an amused distance. it is pulling on his first goal to. visit the. host but as obama. is lucky. yeah city block that he doesn't enjoy some us a bit goes ahead. but. to raise

a said and her living as a translator her first novel is the story of a young woman who tried and failed to fit in wants to often kirton disappointed she makes the radical decision to move into an old wardrobe left in a courtyard. she come to buy. by there she could live with other people with her sister her girlfriend her family and. on me but she doesn't want to be there and deal with other people. because she needs to deal with herself the light is c. one hundred s. are going to be the same time she's somehow incapable of taking action and can't afford her own apartment or so the coverage gives her a bit of freedom in this provisional situation by height in there. is it throughout

. the protagonist feels lost in a way which could perhaps only happen in the success driven and consumer oriented western world it's a story that says honest as it is absolute. the one constant in the young woman's life is a friend the vietnamese man he lets her use the washroom in the shop and give service modern something to eat. this is more than a mere detail it's a nod to multiculturalism at a time when czech politicians often disparage the country spirit means minority is the czech republic xenophobia in twenty fifteen at the height of europe's refugee crisis the country accepted less than two hundred people from the negative out soon is for my generation it's extremely painful to hear that the czech republic refused to accept refugees. i didn't refuse to the government refused to i myself helped refugees. so i had the flu thing and got hold of me when i drove to hungary and

took a good look at the situation. and i for my own opinion get mocked. she says of course people in the czech republic appreciate the material freedoms and the opportunities to travel that they now have but she says many people's mindsets are slower to change some feeling secure and don't know how to handle freedom. does that worry her. not in the least. fin that he mentions in these i think people can see for themselves if they've elected the wrong politician. the elan the time goes on they notice ok maybe that wasn't so great. and that's progress by sometimes you have to try things out before you realize that's a bad apple i won't use one of those again. proc casillas the city's landmark and houses the office of the czech president. current president.

approach china and pro russia stance has divided the country in the ukraine conflict he sided with russia and in twenty fifteen he called the wave of refugees flooding into europe an organized invasion. the hakim toppled a shock when seaman was elected president he donates for for a truly free country both before nine hundred eighty nine and after as a writer journalist and since twenty levon as program director of the bus live how the library. put this into can histories like a huge pendulum with much love have all its one as high to one side as possible now it's right at the bottom but i hope we'll reach the other side again. must laugh how awful was czechoslovakia as the last president and the first president of the czech republic after slovakia seceded in one thousand nine hundred three a former dissident was also a celebrated writer and of moral authority. shortly before his death last love

personally brought topple to the library topple continues to curate the libraries cultural program as hospital would have wanted and he's kept on writing unusual novels his latest a sensitive person starts off as a road movie about a family of artists but soon turns into a commentary on modern european society. pressure not to you know comedian to. this strange family is led by a father who's around my age. he still has this desire to discover western europe. and it is what is europe this mental image that he has no longer exists for his will you know. instead he encounters an unfriendly europe full of social tension plagued by crises and with accords of migrants walking around that puts it over for the who are. those oh. so he returns to his homeland with all of

its brothels scrapyards and boss it might not be the prettiest but at least it's good fun the novel and toppled the state award for literature in twenty seventeen and much public criticism. prague is booming and is now among the ten richest regions europe the days when people here four for socialism with a human face on long gone. it's easier to imagine right up front kafka walking. through the city's alleyways at the start of the twentieth century back then prague was a magnet for artists and writers in check and german as the city was still part of the hub spec empire. a solution others yes everything's also nice looking so picturesque back home but underneath the surface there are a few graves a few bodies lying buried on top of one another. and we have to live with these

corpses these ghosts of the past in the hilly. jaroslav through dish study check history and says that to do that you need to know german otherwise he'd never have been able to conduct the research for his novel winter birds os journey it's a comical tribute to train travel to central europe and life in general written in german. a month. when you look at the map of the railway routes in austria hungary in one nine hundred thirteen and compare it with a map of the routes in central europe today you can see how many are left hotels four quarters ago i'm told that's all of these routes this station where we are now they all existed back then as a disk option domicile us together with his melancholy geriatric nasty young kraus ninety nine year old penciled in to back embark on a journey into the past taking his cue from a detailed guidebook dating back from one thousand thirteen he's drawn ever deeper

into the country's history and his own. path so it's a form to stuart and to some little ones and all of us assumes that i want to again with czechoslovakia and stuff. stuart's also some broken ones and one after the crisis. will be a scar from all stuart's also some good moments and only after he had sent us the communist income own stores themselves i go nuts and one of those expeditions was the soviets that sort of form groups for peter stands for towards. it's like. winter back me and through the course of history bringing the past to life in spite of these often sad events it's a sheer delight to be along for the ride. change of location poker arrest a city of contrasts with its grand socialist boulevards. characterless apartment

blocks. and rundown buildings. romania's capital is it once dynamic and at a standstill. future country rescue is one of romania's leading authors he's a masterful storyteller and an intellectual who isn't afraid to address uncomfortable truths that people who are poor. or nineties stay for most of them stay poor data stand out the believing good didn't change but at the same time. there is now a class of very beach people who got their reach most of them ninety percent of them because of the corruption. corruption remains and in to make problem in romania. it was rife under the communist regime dictator nicholas church a school who was executed in the revolution of one nine hundred eighty nine. the monstrous palace of parliament is a reminder of his megalomania. the old guard regrouped under the banner of the

party of social democracy and corruption continue to fester even after romania joined the e.u. and the real problem is that people who have. read the big problem so you can buy just these. fires are part option. got into the parliament and. these kind of people make the laws not and of course they make the laws. against a free justice. the government has sought to ease penalties for corruption offenses by politicians hundreds of thousands have rallied against the erosion of the rule of law warning of a return to autocratic rule. the left leaning populist government has shown little willingness to listen it has strong backing among its voter base the rural poor. the. very

very. big power to ban the spot he has it's that he lies on the poorest and let's let's educate the people. to rescue his latest novel solano weed has yet to be published in english translation it's protectionist is more concerned about the community's well being than his own country rescue says he's learned that literature doesn't just need to be appealing it needs to address human concerns to. maybe as a reaction to remain is tense political situation. mamata presence by now doubted them or theme but i couldn't go down look as on today's modern mighty sheen across all of that the ban on extra says on saturn's as

a national fund could step in the step but then he led the. dandy on my friends issue floyd if you know matt open or are you. let me near burnished his novel was a surprise success in romania it's the story of a young woman who painstakingly tries to build a life for herself and book arrest while her mother works in spain. punished and knows what it's like to feel abandoned her mother too has worked in western europe for years one of some four million romanians. i read recently a report of the un i think it was with the. fastest depopulating countries in the world and they were all ten in eastern europe and germany was among them not the first not on the first place but still and it was like all our neighbors all the area hungary ukraine moldova they were all there in the list and that's. it's weird

and makes you think because it was a global import. migrant workers sent a lot of money home but romania needs doctors teachers engineers and childcare workers and they're critical voices. like being here burnished doesn't want to leave the country even if she's been thinking about it for years she feels she belongs here but daily life for the young author and translator is anything but easy the cost of living is high and the minimum wage low. so can authors make a living in romania. i think everybody has the feeling that you have to be thankful to see your name on the book cover and then just you know feed yourself with the glory they don't expect you to. ask to be paid for it. advance payments are uncommon and print runs are secret there are neither wholesalers nor such a thing as a fixed book price the market is small and dominated by international bestsellers

translate. of which don't pay much. many bookshops also sell wine gift items and t. to make ends meet. some booksellers had reservations about stocking cattle in the whole yorks novel oxenberg and bernstein not because it's badly written but because it takes on a national taboo. in june one thousand nine hundred one romanian troops massacre the jewish population of the city of yosh the yosh program more than ten thousand people were killed. to this day many romanians refuse to recognize their country's role in the holocaust. paramus tickle would ask that i think i feel racial hatred is undermining humanity what saddens me in particular is this is what i said in one interview that the goal of my book is to help create

a better world among my readers and if you. could see merely just this. and that was singled out for ridicule by numerous hostile media outlets bush could pay. whatever another meat that made us. today just four thousand jews live in romania it seems only a matter of time before jewish life here vanishes altogether all that remains is the communities architectural heritage and memories many of which inform who acts during novel opens up to go i'm not so young anymore and i wanted to write something that would make a difference with something that carried a certain weight at the end so i could walk through the rest of my life with my head held high from texas. which he should his novel is one of forty books from romania that have recently been published in germany royal works by uncompromising authors who take a stand. one thousand five hundred kilometers

further east lies to the sea the capital of the eurasian country of georgia. but the city itself is more european than asian it's teeming with life and singularly beautiful. into releases historical sense to the buildings from past centuries of being lovingly restored. and the crumbling remains of the soviet era are being swept away. highly acclaimed georgian dramatist and critics doubt it is following the changes to the city his country and its inhabitants closely. after decades of russian occupation where is the independent republic headed and how is it dealing with its past i think it needs years and years of experience stability and for peace and economic development in the country to start talking about realizing in rethinking our past.

for georgians the past means centuries of foreign rule exploitation and oppression . it means joseph stalin system of injustice soviet propaganda. as well as the hardships after georgia gained its independence in one nine hundred ninety one. lack of political stability corruption and violence. poverty and hunger. battles over the breakaway republics of a posse and suffer a seizure we are so much preoccupied with this boiling temperature and this boiling political situation all the time that no one actually cares to start careful and quiet and calm a research of the previous history of where the roots of all these problems come from. that's one reason why georgian literature is so in lightning it meanders its

way through the small mind and tells the stories of its people revealing georgia's darkest sides and the many upheavals. still looks. other arabs. are so proud libya. music. and there were certain exactly so. now it's and it's wrong. so that's clearly right up a diet that's normal is goes a very dark and of them hold that they can about. about almost usefully. a man who's been killed across the way. the whole thing because each night he would stand on his balcony and watch his new neighbor and his older lover. now the good looking young man is dead and syrup takes action he longs to have a job again and now he knows how he can get one. dollar get to me as novel farben

they're not all colors of night is a crime thriller set in the late summer of two thousand and twelve when georgians protested against the prison abuse scandal videos cropped up in the media which showed prisoners being obese and by guards. tens of thousands took to the streets the country was on the brink of collapse. then on october first dark and billionaire bit in a ivanishvili assumed power and became george's prime minister. he stepped down a year later but remains influential to this day overlooking tbilisi is a vanished wheel is futuristic glass house designed by japanese architect shouldn't talk amounts of. in general georgian culture is the culture of extreme eaters and i really don't like that extra little well i'll take the characters who are normal people who are not distinguished by me or anything and put them in boiling

situation and keep up the observing something terrible happening to them because that's that's my primary interest. what happens in darva me as novel reveals much about contemporary georgian society about its macho culture in which homosexuality remains a tipping about its fear of change even positive change. on the streets of tbilisi there's. little indication of the sense of paralysis here things are lively and constantly in motion. although monotony does appear to be the rule in the city's outlying districts. now not really grew up in a village just outside the city she lived right next door to a children's home a relic of the soviet era. this is pretty much what it looked like then too when it was known as the home for idiots. today it houses refugees from

a party and south ossetia. in the early one nine hundred ninety s. its residents were unwanted children who were poor neglected abused and brutalized . they laughed and told us about a girl that they held down while other children richter. the girl cried and then the other children made fun of her. and i noticed this should become a kind of ritual have been good we did this often. some twenty years later nona ectomy sheerly has with these childhood memories into a disturbing novel called the pear field she came up with the idea after seeing her former playmates begging on the street. now she's given these unloved and damaged souls a voice her protectiveness layla is a strong and angry young girl who fights back against the constant humiliation and degradation. slim stone took its. the worst and most malicious soviet legacy is

that people don't analyze things. people haven't learned to deal with reality and they don't believe they can change things and they never learn they have the power to change things with their own two hands. so what will the future bring and will all georgians have a play. isn't it. the rice of photographer act and to guide our field he cuts travels around the country often returning to tbilisi. he wanders between worlds a thoughtful observer. his novel elephant from the south which has already won several prizes in georgia takes the first person narrator on a tour of tbilisi for a day with flashbacks going as far back as the one nine hundred twenty s. . i'm following go people who are thinking

oh oh poor harry feeling of beauty like my characters who are not hiding. behind some excuses. for really are interesting people. who are very real a previous record or very life also who can't forgive themselves because it's a tells the story of an identity crisis full of ethnic conflicts and questions of the right or wrong lifestyle of truth and integrity. he says that the period when georgia was part of the soviet union damaged georgian society today georgians are still living with the consequences which are deeply ingrained in every family history. that's why i made my character's son of such a man the son of core opted for the soul which are don't work on your balls and from other side of your recognition. the son of george and i think we should

rethink i gave him this very heavy in harry teach which he has to. carry all his life and fight through the streets the elephants of the south is the story of his generation once after a public reading a young girl came up to him and thanked him now she understood by her uncle is such a drinker she said and why her neighbor was the way here. odds. are you think you quit if you quit b.p.'s own vision somehow step by step move through a local workforce a bit because i see people i see by to give her a share they are more open minded they are more power for very reversed be firm they are very more free than react my generation has a local next week we are carrying a low life. today georgia is looking towards the west english has replaced russian

as its first foreign language traveling to the e.u. without a visa is possible georgia is a country in transformation and its literature is a real discovery. and that's all for arts twenty one today and our literary travels to prague bucharest and tbilisi.

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