Alexandra Berkova

By Bernie Higgins 

"Earlier this year, a leading author and very well-known and much admired personality in the Czech Republic died - Alexandra Berková. She was a journalist, writer for tv, novelist and short story writer, a campaigner for social justice in many areas, as well as being a beloved teacher of many. Her novels were highly experimental in nature, mixing, for example, allegory, fairytale and satire. In order to discuss the work of Alexandra (or Saša) Berková, I visited Pavla Jonssonová, a cultural theorist who teaches at the Anglo-American University in Prague."

“Yes, she was a total experimenter, and I more and more think of her in the legacy of Kafka especially, which is this Modernist way, this existentialist way of speaking about what happens to us, but she added this funny, feminine, feminist twist, the gender viewpoint.”

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