The exhibition, entitled Face and Mask, comprises more than 40 photographs taken by Tibor Hrapka during a series of interviews László Szigeti, the head of Czech publishing house Kalligram, made with the author. The interviews were later published in a volume called Pocket Tricks.
The photographs will be on display until March 2.
The Czech Centre has also organised a special evening of events to pay tribute to Hrabal.
Also to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Hrabal's death, Budapest's Örökmozgó Cinema will host a talk, on February 28, with the Czech director Jirí Menzel, who collaborated closely with the Hrabal. The Hungarian writer Péter Esterházy will participate.
The Örökmozgó will show three of Menzel's films on February 25-28, all of them based on works by Hrabal. Among them will be the film which foreign audiences are most familiar with: Closely Observed Trains, which tells a coming-of-age story in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. The Örökmozgó will also show Pearls of the Deep, a rendering of Hrabal's short stories which came to be regarded as a kind of manifesto of the Czech new wave, as well as Cutting it Short, in which Hrabal recalls his childhood in the provincial town of Nymburk.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
