That was his point: life went on as far as possible, whatever the powers that be were doing. And choosing what to write about was an essential assertion of human individuality and liberty. “I gradually came to realise that there were two kinds of freedom, internal and external,” he reflected. “I wrote about the world not in the way I was ordered to but the way I perceived and experienced it.” Klima was born in 1931 in Prague to secularised Jewish parents. Before the Nazis invaded the Czech lands, “I had never heard the word ‘Jew’ and I had no...
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