Choosing an inorganic substance as the central protagonist of the story is a particularly radical way to change that conventional order, and generate an alternative reading of our past, present and future. That way of looking at things counters the anthropocentric belief that Man is different from all other organisms, alone possesses intrinsic value, and is under the 'illusion' that humans hold unlimited power over the social and natural order of things. That doesn’t amount to a scientific proof, but it is enough to arrive at many fascinating stories of how a non-anthropocentric and non-organic material might yet be conscious and central not just to the past, but to a possible future in which the human, animal and vegetable may have had their time. ‘Initially it sounds very arbitrary, but as we researched we found more and more things that fitted, understanding salt as an underground mineral with alchemical essence …’ ‘Could we retell the story of mankind from the perspective of a mineral?’ Troika asked themselves. The cubes that form naturally in many crystals can be read as the start of geometry, rational thinking, order, orientation, progress … And more recently, photography as well as transistors and computing are salt-based. The first cities, the first fertilisation of the land, the payment of salaries in early capitalism – all salt. Moreover, they point out, all metals are stages of salt. The first mines came from digging down to find better flint, so humanity’s initial major excavation of the earth was for salt. Yet, as Troika explain, the first tool – flint – is a silicate, which is within a broad definition of salt. Dita Saxová and Night and Hope have been filmed.First off, this sounds implausible.
His most renowned books are A Prayer For Katerina Horowitzowa (published and nominated for a National book award in 1974), Dita Saxová (1979), Night and Hope (1985), and Lovely Green Eyes (2004). She wrote of her family's fate during the Holocaust in the collection of poems entitled "Daughter of Olga and Leo." They have two children, Josef (1950) and Eva (1956). Unlike her parents, she was not deported to Auschwitz. Lustig is married to the former Vera Weislitzová (1927), daughter of a furniture maker from Ostrava who was also imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp. In 2008, Lustig became the eighth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize. He was given an apartment in the Prague Castle by then President Václav Havel and honored for his contributions to Czech culture on his 80th birthday in 2006. After his retirement from the American University in 2003, he became a full-time resident of Prague. After the fall of eastern European communism in 1989, he divided his time between Prague and Washington DC, where he continued to teach at the American University. However, following the Soviet-led invasion that ended the Prague Spring in 1968, he left the country, first to Israel, then Yugoslavia and later in 1970 to the United States. He was one of the major critics of the Communist regime in June 1967 at the 4th Writers Conference, and gave up his membership in the Communist Party after the 1967 Middle East war, to protest his government's breaking of relations with Israel. He worked as a journalist in Israel at the time of its War of Independence where he met his future wife, who at the time was a volunteer with the Haganah. He returned to Prague in time to take part in the May 1945 anti-Nazi uprising.Īfter the war, he studied journalism at Charles University in Prague and then worked for a number of years at Radio Prague.
In 1945, he escaped from a train carrying him to the Dachau concentration camp when the engine was mistakenly destroyed by an American fighter-bomber. As a Jewish boy in Czechoslovakia during World War II, he was sent in 1942 to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, from where he was later transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by time in the Buchenwal Arnošt Lustig (born 21 December 1926 in Prague) is a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.Īs a Jewish boy in Czechoslovakia during World War II, he was sent in 1942 to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, from where he was later transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Arnošt Lustig (born 21 December 1926 in Prague) is a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.
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