Cambridge University Central European Society - CUCES

Date: Sunday 15 February 2004
Venue: Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College.

6:15 pm, Admission free. Open to all.

In 2003, our evening of poetry and prose in six languages Jewish contribution to Central European culture featured works by A.L.Wolfson and A.Reyzen; P.Celan; I.Babel and O.Mandelshtam; Radnoti M. and Kertesz I.; B.Lesmian, B.Schulz, and J.Tuwim. This year's programme comprised:

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Russian Sergei DOVLATOV (1941–1990) (Compromise) *

German Paul CELAN (1920–1970) Auf Reisen (While travelling) *

Italian Claudio MAGRIS (b.1939) Danubio (Danube) *

Polish Adam MICKIEWICZ (1798 1855) Pan Tadeusz *

Russian Joseph BRODSKY (1940–1996) (Lithuanian divertissement) *

English Encyclopaedia of Jewish humour: from Biblical times to the modern age * [Break] *

French Giacomo CASANOVA (1725–1798) Histoire de ma vie (History of my life) *

English Patrick Leigh FERMOR (b.1915) Between the woods and the water: on foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates *

Polish Zbigniew HERBERT (1924–1998) Wegrom (To Hungarians) *

Latvian Aleksandrs CAKS (1901–1950) Slikti (Too bad) *

Polish Konstanty Ildefons GALCZYNSKI (1905–1953) Dymiacy piecyk (Smoking oven) from Teatrzyk Zielona Ges (The Green Goose Theatre Company) *

Hungarian George MIKES (1912–1987 How to be inimitable: coming of age in England

Presented by Tomasz Bak, Diana De Bartolo, Pjotr Drag, Robert Dudas, Radka Kucerova, Natalie Tchernetska. With special thanks to Marzena Szymanska.