Takhle to setkání po letech musíme nechat na jinou chvíli.“ Korespondence Jana Vladislava a Josefa Škvoreckého v letech 1980–1984

This selection of correspondence between Jan Vladislav and Josef Škvorecký includes letters from Vladislav’s early years as an exile in France at the beginning of the 1980s. It presents a lively, friendly transatlantic communication, particularly concerning the operation of Sixty-Eight Publishers in Toronto and work on writing for the seventieth birthday of the painter and poet Jiří Kolář in 1984. The letters also reveal Vladislav’s and Škvorecký’s lively and knowledgeable commentary on events in Czechoslovakia. As contemporaries and as participants in the arts, Vladislav and Škvorecký not only had the experience of exile, but also looked soberly at the events of the 1950s and 1960s.