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Kocka-Ktera-Nikdy-Nespi-II.Pdf Obsah I Contents Slovo úvodem... 13 Texty o Jiřině Jak jsem potkávalaJiřinu... 21 Zdenka Brodská (USA) Jak je důležité mítiJiřinu... 25 Markéta Goetz·St<mkiewicz (Kanada) Zpráva o jedné komunikaci... 35 Ivan M.Havel (Praha) Můj život s Jiřinou Šiklovou... 43 Mary Hrabík Sama/(USA} Jiřině Šiklové k narozeninám... 50 Eva Ka11t1irková(Praha) Podle článku 29... 55 Helena Klimová (Praha) Dluh ...63 JózefL,ewandowski (Švédsko) Americký kapitalista poznává českou disidentku... 68 James H. Ottaway,Jr. (USA) Silnější než poměry... 77 Petr Pithart {Praha) Má učitelka -Jiřina ...80 Dana Potočková (Praha) Z nezapomenuté korespondence ...83 Vilém Prečem (Praha) Neohrožená a neúnavná... 88 Wolfgang Scheur {Německo) Kočce, která nikdy nespí... 90 H. Gordon Ski/li11g Jiřina Š ....92 Ludvík Vaculík (Praha) Tři dny a několik let v životě Jiřiny Šiklové ...95 Ale11a Wag11erová {Německo) Výběr z textů Jiřiny Šiklové Dopis matce ... 109 Obranné mechanismy aneb Jak přežít vazbu... 112 „Nedopusťte, aby byly zničeny!"... 120 Ko11cept závěrečného slova - obhajobyJiři11y Šiklové, připrave11ý ve viwici č.1 v Ruzyni v červenci 1981 Dopis přátelům k výročí Franze Kafky... 126 Stížnost a žádost o vyšetření...130 Šedá zóna a budoucnost disentu v československu... 138 Stručná kronika života Jiřiny Šiklové... 153 Bibliografický přehled publikacíJiřiny Šiklové 1967-2014... 159 Ediční poznámky... 171 Autoři ...175 Foreword ... 177 Texts aboutJiřina My Meetings with Jiřina... 185 Zde11ka Brodská (USA) The Importance of Being Jiřina... 189 Marke/a Goetz-Sta11kiewicz(Ca11ada) Report on a Communication... 200 Ivan M.Havel {Prague) My Life withJiřina... 209 Mary Hrabík Sama/ (USA) For Jiřina Šiklová, on her Birthday ... 216 Eva Kanl/írková (Prague) According to Article 29... 222 1-Ielena Klimová(Prague) My Debt... 231 JózefLewa ndowski (Sweden) An American Capitalist Meets a Czech Dissident. ..237 James H. Ottaway,Jr. (USA} Stronger Than Circumstances ... 346 Pelr Pithart (Prague] My teacher,Jiřina ... 249 Dana Potočková (Prague] From Some Remembered Correspondence... 252 Vilém Prečan (Prague] Intrepid and Indefatigable ...258 WolfgangSch eur(Germany) To the Cat Who Never Sleeps ... 260 H. Gordonš Skilling Jiřina .... 262 Ludvík Vawlik (Prague) Three Days and Severa! Years in the Life ofJiřina Šiklová... 265 Alena Wagnerová (Cermany) A Selection ofTexts by Jiřina Šiklová Letter to her Mother. ..281 Defence Méchanisms or How to Survive Inprisonment...284 Save these Books... 293 Draft offinalstatemenl ofthe defence ofjiřina Šiklová,prepared at Pri· son No. l, Ruzyně inJuly 1981 Letter to Friends on Franz Kafka's Anniversary ...299 Complaint and Request for Investigation ...304 The "Gray Zone" and The Future of Dissent in Czechoslova­ kia... 312 Jiřina Šiklová: Brief Chronology... 329 Notes about the editing ...335 Authors ... 339 james h. ottaway, jr. BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 1 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:38:594:38:59 BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 2 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:004:39:00 THE CAT WHO NEVER SLEEPS II KOČKA, KTERÁ NIKDY NESPÍ II BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 3 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:004:39:00 Book-Siklova 2015.indb 4 25.5.2015 14:39:00 The Cat Who Never Sleeps II To Jiřina Šiklová on her birthday Kočka, která nikdy nespí II Jiřině Šiklové k narozeninám Uspořádal | Edited by Vilém Prečan james h. ottaway, jr praha | prague 2015 BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 5 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:014:39:01 Published by James H. Ottaway, Jr, 2005, 2015 Texts © Zdenka Brodská, Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz, Ivan M. Havel, Mary Hrabik Samal, Eva Kantůrková, Helena Klímová, Józef Lewandowski, James H. Ottaway, Jr., Petr Pithart, Dana Potočková, Vilém Prečan, Wolfgang Scheur, H. Gordon Skilling, Ludvík Vaculík, Alena Wagnerová Translations © Derek Paton, Gerald Turner, Alison Siddall, Todd Ha- mmond, Jan Šefranka, Mary Hrabik Samal, Zdenka Brodská, Petruška Šustrová, Vilém Prečan, Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz, W. J. Stankiewicz Design and typesetting by Marvil ISBN 978-80-904228-9-6 BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 6 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:014:39:01 Obsah | Contents Slovo úvodem…13 Texty o Jiřině Jak jsem potkávala Jiřinu…21 Zdenka Brodská (USA) Jak je důležité míti Jiřinu…25 Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz (Kanada) Zpráva o jedné komunikaci…35 Ivan M. Havel (Praha) Můj život s Jiřinou Šiklovou…43 Mary Hrabik Samal (USA) Jiřině Šiklové k narozeninám…50 Eva Kantůrková (Praha) Podle článku 29…55 Helena Klímová (Praha) Dluh…63 Józef Lewandowski (Švédsko) Americký kapitalista poznává českou disidentku…68 James H. Ottaway, Jr. (USA) Silnější než poměry…77 Petr Pithart (Praha) BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 7 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:014:39:01 Má učitelka – Jiřina…80 Dana Potočková (Praha) Z nezapomenuté korespondence…83 Vilém Prečan (Praha) Neohrožená a neúnavná…88 Wolfgang Scheur (Německo) Kočce, která nikdy nespí…90 H. Gordon Skilling Jiřina Š.…92 Ludvík Vaculík (Praha) Tři dny a několik let v životě Jiřiny Šiklové…95 Alena Wagnerová (Německo) Výběr z textů Jiřiny Šiklové Dopis matce…109 Obranné mechanismy aneb Jak přežít vazbu…112 „Nedopusťte, aby byly zničeny!“…120 Koncept závěrečného slova – obhajoby Jiřiny Šiklové, připravený ve věznici č. 1 v Ruzyni v červenci 1981 Dopis přátelům k výročí Franze Kafky…126 Stížnost a žádost o vyšetření…130 Šedá zóna a budoucnost disentu v Československu…138 Stručná kronika života Jiřiny Šiklové…153 Bibliografický přehled publikací Jiřiny Šiklové 1967−2014…159 Ediční poznámky…171 Autoři…175 Foreword…177 Texts about Jiřina My Meetings with Jiřina…185 Zdenka Brodská (USA) The Importance of Being Jiřina…189 Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz (Canada) Report on a Communication…200 Ivan M. Havel (Prague) My Life with Jiřina…209 Mary Hrabik Samal (USA) BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 8 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:014:39:01 For Jiřina Šiklová, on her Birthday…216 Eva Kantůrková (Prague) According to Article 29…222 Helena Klímová (Prague) My Debt…231 Józef Lewandowski (Sweden) An American Capitalist Meets a Czech Dissident…237 James H. Ottaway, Jr. (USA) Stronger Than Circumstances…346 Petr Pithart (Prague) My teacher, Jiřina…249 Dana Potočková (Prague) From Some Remembered Correspondence…252 Vilém Prečan (Prague) Intrepid and Indefatigable…258 Wolfgang Scheur (Germany) To the Cat Who Never Sleeps…260 H. Gordon Skilling Jiřina Š.…262 Ludvík Vaculík (Prague) Three Days and Several Years in the Life of Jiřina Šiklová…265 Alena Wagnerová (Germany) A Selection of Texts by Jiřina Šiklová Letter to her Mother…281 Defence Mechanisms or How to Survive Inprisonment…284 Save these Books…293 Draft of final statement of the defence of Jiřina Šiklová, prepared at Pri- son No. 1, Ruzyně in July 1981 Letter to Friends on Franz Kafka’s Anniversary…299 Complaint and Request for Investigation…304 The “Gray Zone” and The Future of Dissent in Czechoslova- kia…312 Jiřina Šiklová: Brief Chronology…329 Notes about the editing…335 Authors…339 BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 9 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:014:39:01 Dear Jiřina, Everyone knows how important it is to have Jiřina and everyone will cer- tainly write as much. I join them in that but would add how important it is to have a Jiřina who is so youthful and active at time when she has a right to being ill and to some well-deserved loafing. With best wishes, Vašek H. Washington, D.C., 17 May 2005 BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 1100 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:014:39:01 05/17/200S 'ltll� 11:51 FAX 202 10; 359S SCUOLAJH' PROGRAHS Book-Siklova 2015.indb 11 25.5.2015 14:39:02 BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb 1122 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:024:39:02 Slovo úvodem Tato kniha vznikla z přání podat u příležitosti životního ju- bilea svědectví o životě a díle osobnosti, která se stala tak- řka veřejnou institucí české společnosti, třebaže není činná ve velké politice, ba takovou roli vždy odmítala. Jistěže tu byl také záměr vzdát Jiřině Šiklové hold, úmysl přátel vyznat se z toho, že si jí váží, že ji mají rádi, a proč. To by však bylo možné učinit soukromě, jako se to stalo před pěti lety, kdy dostala v jednom exempláři jako rukopis svazek blahopřání, textů a drobných vzpomínek z pera několika desítek přátel a ctitelů. Zde však jde o víc. Cílem bylo zaznamenat v podobě mozaiky výpovědí svědků jednoho života a ve výběru několika písemných svědectví vzrušující životní příběh Jiřiny Šiklové a přiblížit jej jako pozoruhodnou, ba mimořádnou součást živých současných dějin naší epochy širšímu publiku doma i v zahraničí. S myšlenkou vydat knihu v této podobě, zejména také dvoj- jazyčně, přišel velký obdivovatel Jiřiny Šiklové, americký vyda- vatel a novinář Jim Ottaway, který se s ní poprvé setkal před patnácti lety a pro něhož je Jiřina, jak napsal v poznámkách k tomto úvodu, „démantem z mnoha facetami“ – zářícími 13 slovo úvodem BBook-Siklovaook-Siklova 22015.indb015.indb SSec15:13ec15:13 225.5.20155.5.2015 114:39:024:39:02 ploškami, které objevoval a naučil se obdivovat, když se postupně seznamoval s „mnoha jejími životy“. Jim Ottaway vytvořil také podmínky k tomu, aby kniha mohla být vydána v této podobě, a byl motorem, který neúnavně poháněl vpřed práce na dokončení úkolu, který jsme si vytkli k 17. červnu 2005 – datu Jiřininých sedmdesátin –, kdykoli se mu zdálo, že stále ještě bouřlivá současnost nás od toho odvádí. Na počátku vzniku knihy byl dopis oslovující necelé dvě desítky potenciálních autorů, od nichž bylo možné očekávat kvalifikovanou výpověď o některé z etap Jiřinina života, nebo některé z oblastí jejího působení. Dva z nich se rozhodli po- užít text napsaný z příležitosti pětašedesátin jubilantky, buď s dodatkem, jako to učinil Ludvík Vaculík, nebo s redakčním zásahem jako Petr Pithart. Alena Wagnerová nabídla svůj německy publikovaný portrét Jiřiny Šiklové, jehož překlad do češtiny pro naši knihu upravila.
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