Host
Eurozine
Host
2008-06-02
Abstracts for Host 05/2008
I am not alone while making an interview... (Interview with Ales Palán)
There is no other genre in modern Czech literature which would have undergone such a dramatic development in such a short time. Interviews. Whereas seventeen years ago we could read them only sporadically in newspapers and journals, now -- in book form -- dozens of them are glutting bookshops. Of course, this boom has also brought about some differentiation as far as quality is concerned. Besides interviews with pop stars, where authors remain more or less anonymous, there are also classics of this genre whose names "sell" the book better than the name of the interviewee -- Karel Hvizdala, Jana Klusáková... and also Ales Palán.