Ivan Wernisch - Út Asgábádba avagy Pumpke and a dalailámák

Franz Kafka Prize winner Ivan Wernisch (1942) is one of the most important Czech poets. In his renewed poetry in the nineties, he believed in poetic freedom and independence. The book The Road to Asgábád accordingly features diverse genres: the volume is a virtuoso collection of poetic anecdotes, rhymes, absurd prose poems, and inverted historical paraphrases, in which the most diverse language layers, styles and eras are evoked. The Road to Ashgabat is a poetic aerial view of a decaying world where not only countries, but also the borders of reality and imagination are constantly changing.