LISTOVÁNÍ: Love and Body (Arnošt Lustig) | Litomyšl

In one of his final books, Arnošt Lustig grappled with themes that run throughout his work - the incomprehensibility of the Nazi plan to exterminate Jews on one hand, and love of life and physicality on the other. Gabriela Lágusová and Josef Reinisch, two young people full of bodily desires, experience forbidden love in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Transport could arrive any day; they find solace only in each other - they live fully and speak things they might never have uttered under different circumstances. The result is a story brimming with declarations of love and essayistic parables about the meaning of life.

The book was published by Mladá fronta. The reading takes place as part of the AL100 project, commemorating the 100th birthday of Arnošt Lustig.

Performing: Bára Jánová (alt. Daniela Šišková) and Lukáš Hejlík.