2011年8月10日 星期三
艾未未真的自由了嗎（貝嶺）
http://tw.nextmedia.com/applenews/article/art_id/33480796/IssueID/20110624 (蘋果日報 6/24 2011)
艾未未真的自由了嗎（貝嶺）
2011年 06月24日
前天下午2時多，我和艾未未姊姊高玲玲通了半小時電話，當時，她和家人還沒有任何艾未未的消息，家中電話也未見異常。我們除了敘紐約之舊，主要是我向玲玲請教為藝術家出版社編選《艾未未說》一書的文稿事宜。
傍晚，關於艾未未即將獲釋的消息在中國的推特上瘋傳，驚人準確的小道消息，且經由中國官媒向特定人選提前釋出並傳播。
晚9時，友人甚至用email告之，中國官方權威媒體新華社正開會商討發布艾未未取保候審、即將獲釋新聞稿一事，晚10時多，友人再email傳來新華社關於艾未未取保候審中英新聞稿。晚上11時半，瘦了甚多的艾未未終於獲釋，搭車回到北京草場地的艾未未工作室住址。我及所有為他擔憂的人稍稍鬆了一口氣。
可以想像他前天晚上回到家中一夜無眠的心情起伏，他的姊姊和母親都已掌握了突破中國政府對境外媒體屏蔽的「翻牆」技術，他現在最需要的是通過電腦上網，詳細了解這80多天他被拘禁期間，國際社會和中外媒體的反應，以及這世上曾發生了什麼？這一切對他接下來如何面對整個國家機器十分重要。
禁止對外發聲一年
從4月3日我在柏林獲悉他被警方扣押時開始，我一路經德東、捷克、斯洛伐克到奧地利，從布拉格、布拉基斯拉瓦、維也納、慕尼黑、海德堡到波昂，我感受著從哈維爾（Vaclav Havel）、克里瑪（Ivan Klima）、葉利尼克（Elfriede Jelinek）、荷塔‧慕勒（Herta Muller）等歐洲作家到所有為他的自由向中國政府公開呼籲者的擔憂。此刻，我們為他的獲釋而高興，可這高興只應停留一天，我們要問︰艾未未真的自由了嗎？
他已告知友人，中國警方釋放他的前提條件是，他不得與媒體、或是透過如推特（Twitter）等社群網站對外發聲，期限「至少一年」。
按中國《刑事訴訟法》第56條的規定，取保候審的艾未未在一年內要遵守四條規定：「1、未經執行機關批准不得離開所居住的市、縣；2、在傳訊的時候及時到案；3、不得以任何形式干擾證人作證；4、不得毀滅、捏造證據或者串供。」所以，艾未未要獲得他被捕前的自由已不可能。
接下來，我們應關注的是，艾未未有沒有在北京走動的自由？有沒有跟律師見面後，由律師代表他公開反駁中國官方指控他逃稅的自由？他能否爭取到被中國警方拘押的艾未未工作室其他4位員工如《環球時報》前記者文濤、會計胡明芬、設計師劉正剛、司機張勁松的逐一獲釋？
以艾未未的個性，沒有犀利直白的媒體訪談與政治批評、沒有推特上的推文、沒有發表言論的網站、沒有出國參加國際藝術活動的允可，他能忍受多久？這一切，曾是他最珍視也用得最得心應手的自由。
而真正的自由，是否只能以出國流亡為代價？如在某一個時間點，以到國外舉辦展覽的名義，不得不成為一個流亡藝術家？
從今天起，對於艾未未的未來，我們將拭目以待。
作者為流亡作家、現為台北市草山行館駐地藝術家
2011年4月13日 星期三
歐洲作家致中國總理溫家寶的公開信
媒體友人
您好！
因我現在歐洲旅居。
這封我起草的致中國國務院溫家寶總理公開信（公開信的簽名人正在持續徵集中），簽名的人均是這幾個國家中最重要作家、思想家、也就是現在所稱的公共知識份子。據稱，溫家寶會每天瀏覽台灣及香港主要報刊的網站，望貴報能夠以矚目的方式刊出。這封信當然也會直接寄往溫家寶總理辦公室，可通過台灣、香港主要報紙網站讓他看到的可能性更大。
這封公開信選擇寫給溫家寶總理的原因已在信中做了簡單的闡述，僅僅從近期大肆抓捕異議人士的中國警方隸屬中國公安部的形式上講，作為政府總理的溫家寶要對這一現在以艾未未被捕為標誌的人權黑暗現象負有直接責任。這也是我和以上簽名的歐洲作家達成的共識。此公開信將以捷文、波蘭文、德文等多語言版本在不同國家的報刊發表。之後，這封信的多語言版本將在歐洲的作家和思想界持續開放簽名，以展示歐洲政界、藝術界之外歐洲作家界的道德立場和責任。
4月6日，我曾在捷克布拉格的哈維爾辦公室經哈維爾秘書將這封我起草的信及最初的設想，與病重正在外地療養中的哈維爾先生用電話共同協商并確認，所以將此公開信稱為哈維爾領銜簽署的亦可。其中的簽名者（除雅黑穆 ·托波爾外）也是我的朋友。我稍微介紹一下他們的背景，波蘭的米奇尼克被稱為1980年代波蘭民主化進程中的異議思想先驅及最重要的知識份子，他在波蘭民主化後創辦的波蘭(Gazeta Wyborcza)《選舉日報》在波蘭已是如同紐約時報在美國一般地位重要的報紙，扎加耶夫斯基是繼米沃什和辛波絲卡（兩位均獲得過諾貝爾文學獎）之後波蘭最重要的詩人和作家，克里瑪是捷克最重要的小說家，曾獲過卡夫卡文學獎，在台灣和中國大陸也有多本中譯出版。近一年來，奧地利的諾貝爾文學獎得主耶利尼克女士一直給予我所做的一切以積極的支持。
所以，這封信的分量也就不言而喻了。
感謝!
貝嶺
Bei Ling
Havel signs letter in support of human rights observance in China
Havel signs letter in support of human rights observance in China
http://praguemonitor.com/2011/04/13/havel-signs-letter-support-human-rights-observance-china2011年2月10日 星期四
《策蘭詩選》精裝典藏版
勘誤表
P.406 〈寫出的〉/ Das Gechriebene
德語第一行 DAS GECHRIEBENE 改為 DAS GESCHRIEBENE
p. 608
〈给埃里克〉 / Für Eric
德語倒數第二行改正為füllt sich mit Seide
《策蘭詩選》作者簡介
保羅‧策蘭 (Paul Celan,1920～1970)
二戰後最重要的德語詩人。1920年生於布科維納的切爾諾維茨（今屬烏克蘭），1942年，猶太裔雙親相繼於納粹集中營中被殺害。1944年，他攜帶《德法辭典》與《英德辭典》開始流亡，經布加勒斯特、維也納，最後在巴黎棲居二十年。1952年，他的〈死亡賦格〉一詩震撼德國。策蘭一生著譯並豐，曾獲德國最高的文學獎項──畢希納文學獎（Georg-Büchner-Preis），1970年4月，他跳入巴黎塞納河，自殺身亡。
德漢對照《策蘭詩選》簡介
752頁的典藏本的德漢對照《策蘭詩選》獲史上最高的德國歌德學院翻譯出版獎助，在策蘭自沉四十年後，由德國的書亢出版社授權「傾向」出版。本書典藏本限量印製，由兩岸三地的策蘭讀者直接向傾向出版社洽購，不透過書店系統銷售發行。
2011年2月3日 星期四
哈維爾在哥大的日子
(紐約時報明天 (2006年12月13日) 將登載下面這篇文章﹐介紹哈維爾在哥倫比亞大學任駐校作家時的情況。在哈維爾即將離任前﹐紐約時報記者對他進行了採訪。)
前捷克總統哈維爾將於星期五結束哥倫比亞大學駐校作家的任職。
Vaclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic, in Low Memorial Library at Columbia; his residency at the university ends on Friday.
Photo courtesy of Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times﹐Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company
Vaclav Who? Oh Yeah, the President Guy Who’s Reviving His Artistic Side By JULIE BOSMAN
Published: December 13, 2006 (New Times Times)
Vaclav Havel suspected he was not exactly a household name to the students at Columbia University when he began a residency there this fall.
After all, the average college freshman had barely learned to crawl in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and Mr. Havel was emerging on the international stage as the president of Czechoslovakia.
Gregory Mosher, the director of Columbia’s Arts Initiative, which brought Mr. Havel to the university, put it more bluntly. “They had no idea who he is,” Mr. Mosher said. “They heard the name and thought he was a hockey player.”
But as Mr. Havel’s seven-week residency nears its end, on Friday, this former dissident, political figure and playwright has successfully introduced himself to a group of students schooled in terrorism and 9/11, not communism and the Velvet Revolution. He has starred in lectures and discussions at Columbia, most notably with another member of what could be called the former presidents’club, Bill Clinton, whose Harlem offices are blocks away from campus.
And he has taken in the buzzy social life of New York, attending Broadway shows and cocktail parties, reluctantly declining invitations once his calendar was stretched to the limit. “I discovered that Americans don’t take it personally,”he said, sipping white wine during a recent interview on the Columbia campus. (Czechs do.)
His residency at Columbia was the product of intense lobbying by Lee C. Bollinger, the university president, who founded the Arts Initiative more than two years ago with the intent of luring people like Mr. Havel and Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner who just completed his own fellowship at the university.
The program was intended to connect the campus to the larger culture. And a visit from Mr. Havel presented a special opportunity to educate the students, Mr. Mosher said. “I know in my gut that connecting the idea of an artist and a president or an artist and human rights hero is a novel idea,”he said.
These days Mr. Havel is leading the plummy life of a retired statesman working on reviving his artistic side. On Oct. 5 the Untitled Theater Company No. 61, in Manhattan, gave Mr. Havel a 70th birthday party that kicked off a two-month “Havel Festival”with productions of 16 of his plays, including one world premiere and five English-language premieres.
In May, Alfred A. Knopf will publish his memoir, “The Castle: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero,”most of which he wrote during a residency last fall at the Library of Congress in Washington. Mr. Havel said the book combined interviews, diary entries and memos from his presidential days.
If Mr. Havel is enjoying his time away from politics and closer to culture, it is long overdue. The years he spent as president of the Czech Republic, which was formed in 1993, left him with a permanent gap in his pop cultural knowledge, he said. “Unfortunately I have to acknowledge that there’s a big sort of delay, a big retardation in my development in recent years and one which I will never be able to catch up with because of those 13 years as president,”Mr. Havel said.
Mr. Havel is no longer the vibrant, rakish figure of his youth, as he appears on the cover of the forthcoming “Castle,”smiling and relaxed with cigarette in hand. At 70 he walks with a slight shuffle and sometimes breathes with difficulty, a reminder of his battle with lung cancer, for which he had surgery in 1996. He declined to talk about his current health.
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, he said, he has not undergone any fundamental existential disappointments about the state of Europe and the world. “I myself am not a naïve utopian or a dreamer,”he said.
Though he was initially supportive of an invasion of Iraq, and was rewarded with a Medal of Freedom from President Bush in 2003, his book — published this year in the Czech Republic under the title “Briefly, Please”— will explain his belief that the war has become a “fiasco. When asked about his opinions of Mr. Bush now, Mr. Havel demurs. “I will just say that you have the president that you elected.”
European politics are another matter. Mr. Havel is more concerned about what he calls a rising tide of nationalism in countries like Hungary and Poland. And he believes strongly that Turkey should be allowed to join the European Union, despite its cultural differences with the West, he said.
“It’s not right to be leading Turkey on all these decades to feel that they are part of these Western structures and this Western community, he said, “And then now to start sort of backpedaling and say that they’re not good enough.”
One way for diverse cultures to coexist peacefully, Mr. Havel said, is to agree on what he calls a “moral minimum, or a set of basic rules of respect and equality common to all societies and cultures.
Too commonly, people equate Islam with terrorism and fundamentalism, infuriating Muslims, Mr. Havel said.
And as he sees it, Christianity has its own problems. “It has its own tradition of fundamentalism and a certain kind of terrorism,”he said. “It has its rather great, terrible historical examples of liquidating other civilizations.”
Writing a new play, based on “King Lear,”is Mr. Havel’s next undertaking. When he saw his old plays performed at the Untitled Theater Company over the last few months, Mr. Havel was surprised at how much more favorably he viewed certain of his plays, which he hadn’t liked very much when they were originally produced. A play “has within it a certain potential for meanings to kind of come to it that the author didn’t necessarily even have it in mind at first, he said. “A successful play is always cleverer than its author.”
Time Out, reviewing Mr. Havel’s play “Mountain Hotel,”was less positive. “Vaclav Havel should be thankful that his CV lists dissident, political prisoner and Czech president, the reviewer wrote. “Without it, his plays probably wouldn’t receive so much attention.”
In the spring Mr. Havel will go on the media circuit to promote “The Castle, appearing on C-Span and National Public Radio. Knopf promises a book heavy on politics, with Mr. Havel’s opinions on the war in Iraq and the future of the European Union.
The lighter side of the book may be the moments that reveal a fledgling democracy in the early 1990s. Mr. Havel chose to include in the book documents like memos chiding staff members about bad food, improper utensils at state dinners and “a whole array of things, which, of course, several years later seem entirely unimportant, Mr. Havel said. But, he continued, they “really illustrate very well what the everyday life of the presidency was in a post-Communist country, where we didn’t have any tradition to latch onto and really had to invent everything all over again.”
And “The Castle will be the only memoir of his political life that he writes, Mr. Havel said. “With this book I’ve sort of come to terms with the end of my presidency and this part of my career, and I don’t feel the need or desire to write any further memoirs as such,”he said. “Now I want to write a play.”
Vaclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic, in Low Memorial Library at Columbia; his residency at the university ends on Friday.
Photo courtesy of Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times﹐Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company
Vaclav Who? Oh Yeah, the President Guy Who’s Reviving His Artistic Side By JULIE BOSMAN
Published: December 13, 2006 (New Times Times)
Vaclav Havel suspected he was not exactly a household name to the students at Columbia University when he began a residency there this fall.
After all, the average college freshman had barely learned to crawl in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and Mr. Havel was emerging on the international stage as the president of Czechoslovakia.
Gregory Mosher, the director of Columbia’s Arts Initiative, which brought Mr. Havel to the university, put it more bluntly. “They had no idea who he is,” Mr. Mosher said. “They heard the name and thought he was a hockey player.”
But as Mr. Havel’s seven-week residency nears its end, on Friday, this former dissident, political figure and playwright has successfully introduced himself to a group of students schooled in terrorism and 9/11, not communism and the Velvet Revolution. He has starred in lectures and discussions at Columbia, most notably with another member of what could be called the former presidents’club, Bill Clinton, whose Harlem offices are blocks away from campus.
And he has taken in the buzzy social life of New York, attending Broadway shows and cocktail parties, reluctantly declining invitations once his calendar was stretched to the limit. “I discovered that Americans don’t take it personally,”he said, sipping white wine during a recent interview on the Columbia campus. (Czechs do.)
His residency at Columbia was the product of intense lobbying by Lee C. Bollinger, the university president, who founded the Arts Initiative more than two years ago with the intent of luring people like Mr. Havel and Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner who just completed his own fellowship at the university.
The program was intended to connect the campus to the larger culture. And a visit from Mr. Havel presented a special opportunity to educate the students, Mr. Mosher said. “I know in my gut that connecting the idea of an artist and a president or an artist and human rights hero is a novel idea,”he said.
These days Mr. Havel is leading the plummy life of a retired statesman working on reviving his artistic side. On Oct. 5 the Untitled Theater Company No. 61, in Manhattan, gave Mr. Havel a 70th birthday party that kicked off a two-month “Havel Festival”with productions of 16 of his plays, including one world premiere and five English-language premieres.
In May, Alfred A. Knopf will publish his memoir, “The Castle: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero,”most of which he wrote during a residency last fall at the Library of Congress in Washington. Mr. Havel said the book combined interviews, diary entries and memos from his presidential days.
If Mr. Havel is enjoying his time away from politics and closer to culture, it is long overdue. The years he spent as president of the Czech Republic, which was formed in 1993, left him with a permanent gap in his pop cultural knowledge, he said. “Unfortunately I have to acknowledge that there’s a big sort of delay, a big retardation in my development in recent years and one which I will never be able to catch up with because of those 13 years as president,”Mr. Havel said.
Mr. Havel is no longer the vibrant, rakish figure of his youth, as he appears on the cover of the forthcoming “Castle,”smiling and relaxed with cigarette in hand. At 70 he walks with a slight shuffle and sometimes breathes with difficulty, a reminder of his battle with lung cancer, for which he had surgery in 1996. He declined to talk about his current health.
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, he said, he has not undergone any fundamental existential disappointments about the state of Europe and the world. “I myself am not a naïve utopian or a dreamer,”he said.
Though he was initially supportive of an invasion of Iraq, and was rewarded with a Medal of Freedom from President Bush in 2003, his book — published this year in the Czech Republic under the title “Briefly, Please”— will explain his belief that the war has become a “fiasco. When asked about his opinions of Mr. Bush now, Mr. Havel demurs. “I will just say that you have the president that you elected.”
European politics are another matter. Mr. Havel is more concerned about what he calls a rising tide of nationalism in countries like Hungary and Poland. And he believes strongly that Turkey should be allowed to join the European Union, despite its cultural differences with the West, he said.
“It’s not right to be leading Turkey on all these decades to feel that they are part of these Western structures and this Western community, he said, “And then now to start sort of backpedaling and say that they’re not good enough.”
One way for diverse cultures to coexist peacefully, Mr. Havel said, is to agree on what he calls a “moral minimum, or a set of basic rules of respect and equality common to all societies and cultures.
Too commonly, people equate Islam with terrorism and fundamentalism, infuriating Muslims, Mr. Havel said.
And as he sees it, Christianity has its own problems. “It has its own tradition of fundamentalism and a certain kind of terrorism,”he said. “It has its rather great, terrible historical examples of liquidating other civilizations.”
Writing a new play, based on “King Lear,”is Mr. Havel’s next undertaking. When he saw his old plays performed at the Untitled Theater Company over the last few months, Mr. Havel was surprised at how much more favorably he viewed certain of his plays, which he hadn’t liked very much when they were originally produced. A play “has within it a certain potential for meanings to kind of come to it that the author didn’t necessarily even have it in mind at first, he said. “A successful play is always cleverer than its author.”
Time Out, reviewing Mr. Havel’s play “Mountain Hotel,”was less positive. “Vaclav Havel should be thankful that his CV lists dissident, political prisoner and Czech president, the reviewer wrote. “Without it, his plays probably wouldn’t receive so much attention.”
In the spring Mr. Havel will go on the media circuit to promote “The Castle, appearing on C-Span and National Public Radio. Knopf promises a book heavy on politics, with Mr. Havel’s opinions on the war in Iraq and the future of the European Union.
The lighter side of the book may be the moments that reveal a fledgling democracy in the early 1990s. Mr. Havel chose to include in the book documents like memos chiding staff members about bad food, improper utensils at state dinners and “a whole array of things, which, of course, several years later seem entirely unimportant, Mr. Havel said. But, he continued, they “really illustrate very well what the everyday life of the presidency was in a post-Communist country, where we didn’t have any tradition to latch onto and really had to invent everything all over again.”
And “The Castle will be the only memoir of his political life that he writes, Mr. Havel said. “With this book I’ve sort of come to terms with the end of my presidency and this part of my career, and I don’t feel the need or desire to write any further memoirs as such,”he said. “Now I want to write a play.”
2011年1月31日 星期一
傾向2011台北書展活動-《策蘭詩選》典藏本 新書介紹會
活動時間：2/13（日）17:00~17:45pm
活動地點：「一人出版社」世貿一館C949攤位 (展場北面，靠近君悅飯店)
傾向出版社-台北書展活動
德漢對照《策蘭詩選》典藏本 新書介紹會（傾向）
活動時間：2/13（日）17:00~17:45pm
活動地點：「一人出版社」世貿一館C949攤位 (展場北面，靠近君悅飯店)
主持人：貝嶺（《策蘭詩選》編審）
活動簡介：策蘭（Paul Celan）為二戰後最重要的德語詩人。貝嶺稱他為︰「二十世紀最深的詩人，二十世紀最傷的詩人。」752頁的典藏本的德漢對照《策蘭詩選》獲史上最高的德國歌德學院翻譯出版獎助，在策蘭自沉四十年後，由德國的書亢出版社授權「傾向」出版。
本書典藏本限量印製，由兩岸三地的策蘭讀者直接向傾向出版社洽購，不透過書店系統銷售發行。新書介紹會將導讀《策蘭詩選》及《策蘭傳》，現場與讀者互動。
2011年1月28日 星期五
哈維爾訪台紀事
 貝嶺 瓦茨拉夫‧哈維爾（Vaclav Havel ）2004年11月的台灣之行被稱為是「冒著生命危險之旅」。在長達12個小時橫跨歐亞的飛行中，哈維爾必須藉助四個氧氣瓶維持呼吸平順（哈維爾於80年代繫獄時罹患肺炎未受治療，加上大量吸煙 ，1996年，哈維爾被診斷出罹患肺癌及多種並發症，不久便被切去大半個肺），並須由私人醫生隨行應付可能的突發狀況。嚴格上講，哈維爾只能居住在空氣濕潤且清新的地方，由於機艙內空氣品質很差，同時也難以應付呼吸困難等突發狀況，.醫生禁止他有超過八小時以上的飛機旅行。
哈維爾訪台之行可以說是一波三折。2004年1月下旬，哈維爾原計畫訪問亞洲四國，第一站是印度，為接受印度政府頒發的甘地和平獎，第二站就是台灣。台灣之行的文化重頭戲，是請我協助安排的。其一是哈維爾著作中文版的新書發表和簽名會、其二是一場委托中國時報人間副刊籌劃的藝文晚會，以對話為主，向哈維爾介紹台灣重要作家及藝術家，包括了云門舞集創辦人林懷民、享譽國際影壇的電影導演侯孝賢等。但哈維爾在印度期間，突然因嚴重的突發性呼吸困難，被迫中止訪問，緊急送回布拉格，台灣、泰國及印尼之行被迫取消。
哈維爾後來答應2004年3月來訪台灣，但也許因為台灣總統選舉前後的政治情形過於複雜，他決定將訪台之行延後至2004年11月。
11月19日上午，身著米黃色西服的哈維爾和夫人達格瑪（Dagmar Veskrnova），以及隨行醫生、機要秘書、中文翻譯等一行五人，飛抵台灣桃園中正機場。哈維爾終於來了，而且看來氣色不錯。他隨即入住台北晶華飯店，應哈維爾要求，當日他沒有任何行程安排，靜養休息調整時差，以便第二天有精力參觀故宮和原住民博物館。然而當天晚上，哈維爾在晶華飯店房間浴室因地滑不慎摔傷，造成腿骨骨裂，疼痛強烈，哈維爾已無法行走。 11月20日晨，哈維爾因腿傷持續疼痛，決定取消參觀台北的故宮博物院和原住民博物館，全天留在飯店，並由外交部緊急借得輪椅代步。他此行最重要的參觀行程，一窺中國古代丰富的文明珍藏和了解台灣原住民文化的機會失去了。
11月21日，哈維爾的重要行程是下午二點前往官渡的台北藝術大學，觀看首部在台灣上演的戲劇《愈來愈難集中精神》——哈維爾27歲時完成的重要劇作。這是為歡迎哈維爾訪台，由《哈維爾戲劇選》編者貝嶺居間安排推動，知名戲劇導演陳培廣導執，由台北藝術大學戲劇系學生演出的學期製作。台北藝大在星期天特別為哈維爾加演一場專場，校方並且還策劃了「哈維爾生平攝影展」以迎接哈維爾的到來。
哈維爾試圖克服傷痛前往參加，但被隨行的醫生勸阻。直至哈維爾戲劇演出前兩小時的中午時分，台北藝大正式獲得通知，哈維爾仍舊不克前往，使翹首期待的北藝大師生大失所望。但此專場仍舊上演，而且觀眾爆滿，但眾人所期待的這齣戲的劇作者卻因傷痛不得不臨時缺席。哈維爾錯過了觀賞自己的劇作在亞洲首演的機會。
據說，那一天哈維爾和妻子完全留在飯店，足不出戶，連用餐都是送到房間裡的。
11月22日，星期一，哈維爾終於坐著輪椅走出了晶華飯店的大廳。上午，他和妻子達格瑪前往總統府，拜會總統陳水扁夫婦和副總統呂秀蓮，並接受陳水扁總統代表中華民國授予他的榮譽勛章。 下午，哈維爾前往國家圖書館，以捷文向近四百位來賓發表他在台的唯一一場公開演講（約為15分鐘），題目為「全球化與民主的未來」。現場的捷漢同聲傳譯將演講譯得一塌糊塗，不連貫及不知所云的中譯讓帶著同聲傳譯耳機的來賓們領會了捷文的「深奧」。
演講前，現場舉辦了一個「知識性」的有獎猜謎活動，猜對了謎的來賓可上台請哈維爾在他的著作中文版上親筆簽名。其中兩個問題「妙不可言」，令人印象深刻。猜謎題目一為：捷克哪一年推翻共產黨專制統治？台灣哪一年結束國民黨專制統治？謎底為：1989年底，哈維爾領導捷克民眾推翻了共產黨的專制統治，2000年；陳水扁先生當選為總統，結束了國民黨在台灣的專制統治。另一猜謎題目為：哈維爾、陳水扁、連戰、馬英九，以上四人哪兩位沒有做過牢？只听台下來賓齊聲大喊：連戰、馬英九，引得整個會場哄堂大笑。整個演講會及哈維爾著作中文版新書簽名會，由台灣名嘴、東吳大學德文系教授謝志偉先生主持，他的「妙語連珠」和搞笑功力，引得與會來賓或讚不絕口或憤而離席。
哈維爾著作中文版簽名會，由中譯者之一曾建元教授，向哈維爾及來賓介紹中國、台灣的知識份子及貝嶺，這十多年來為翻譯和出版哈維爾著作中文版所付出的心力。哈維爾除了簽名外，還交叉用紅綠兩色彩筆劃上代表「愛」的心形符號，使得現場獲得哈維爾著作中文版簽名書的來賓感動和意外。最後的一個活動，是由來賓、讀者、出版人和哈維爾直接互動，由於不再需要同聲翻譯，使下午的整個活動劃上了完美的句點。
晚間，陳水扁總統夫婦親自前往哈維爾下榻的晶華飯店宴請哈維爾夫婦。
23日上午十點，哈維爾前往台灣國立政治大學，參加政治大學頒授他榮譽文學博士學位典禮，推崇哈維爾在文學、戲劇、民主政治、行政改革等領域的傑出貢獻。哈維爾當天精神甚好，在陪同哈維爾來訪的捷克漢學家吳大偉（David UHER）教授和台灣林蒔慧教授輪流的現場翻譯下，整個頒授儀式精彩緊湊，哈維爾回答了政大師生的提問，有趣的是，哈維爾在典禮上向來賓披露，他這幾天在台灣的飯店養傷時產生了靈感，他想將他13年總統生涯的經驗以小說的形式寫出來。
中午，哈維爾趕回飯店和李登輝前總統會面晤談約20分鐘。因過度疲勞，哈維爾回房休息，臨時取消了當天下午二點由台灣民主基金會主辦、詩人李敏勇主持，安排哈維爾和台灣作家、藝術家見面交流的藝文座談會。晚上，哈維爾夫婦及隨行人員出席由外交部長陳唐山在西華飯店主辦的歡送晚宴，席間，哈維爾和參加晚宴的五十多位來賓，共同觀賞了由台灣民主基金會製作、約五分多鐘的哈維爾生平簡報片，並請來原住民歌手紀曉君向哈維爾夫婦獻唱。達格瑪頗為興奮，並起身離席和紀曉君交談甚歡。
晚宴期間，哈維爾差人請我到他的座位處與他交談，我端著酒杯來到哈維爾面前，俯身和他乾杯，哈維爾用英語問我：「我是不是還沒有向你正式介紹過我的妻子達格瑪？」我說：「是的」。接著，哈維爾將坐在他旁邊的達格瑪介紹給我，並向達格瑪解釋我們之前見面的情形。達格瑪確實美麗，而且笑得非常燦爛，那種沒有憂傷和陰影的明媚。我和她碰杯，並和她用英文寒喧，她告訴我，哈維爾非常感激，並且很驚訝他的著作竟然已經有六本譯成中文出版。接著，哈維爾再次向我表示感激，隨即，我向他表達了對他此次訪台未能參加特別為他安排的文化和藝術活動的遺憾。顯然，哈維爾意識到這也許會成為永久的遺憾，他請我代他向台灣文化界及所有未能會面交流的作家們表示歉意。隨後，我們談到各自的近況，哈維爾有些興奮地告訴我，兩個星期前，他悄悄去了一趟巴黎，沒有人知道，是昆德拉請他去的，他們在一起好幾天，完全是智性的交談，沒有任何人打擾，因為昆德拉不喜歡媒體，更不喜歡媒體報導他們的見面，哈維爾說：「我們的交談完全是作家和作家的交談，探討的內容也非常廣泛。」
最後，哈維爾帶著一種昆德拉式的幽默神情看著我說：「你是我向外披露這一秘密的第一個作家友人，也請你不要告訴任何新聞媒體。很不幸地，此次在台北我們無法深談，等你明年到布拉格時，我們可以好好交談。」
24日晚上，哈維爾搭乘當日11點的長榮班機離台返回布拉格，仍舊是坐著輪椅。他的機要秘書Jakub Hladik博士說，前一天整日的活動讓哈維爾累壞了，所以在台的最後一天他完全沒辦法出門，三餐都是送到房間的。離別的時候到了，一整排的官員——西裝筆挺、衣冠楚楚，旁邊是顯得如此格格不入的我，穿著台灣服裝設計師鄭惠中設計的純東方元素的寬大布衣褲。我和哈維爾握手道別，和達格瑪互道珍重。隨後，哈維爾被抬上外交部的黑色禮賓車，一列車子從晶華飯店的環形車道上緩緩駛離，哈維爾和達格瑪向台灣揮手告別。 回味著令我難忘、卻也讓我無法不失望的哈維爾台灣之行。我不願看到，當總統的身份成為哈維爾的符號象徵時，作家哈維爾好像消失了，甚至成為政治家哈維爾的一個點綴。假如，哈維爾此行沒有不幸的摔倒造成骨傷，沒有因此取消所有的文化和文學藝術活動，假如他真去了台北藝大看他的戲，假如他在23日下午能和一部份台灣的作家和知識分子有一場深入的對話，哈維爾的訪台之行又會是怎樣的呢？
在哈維爾這么一場政冶壓倒文學的台灣之行後，我只能說，根本上，作家哈維爾只呈現在他獨處一室之時，和作家友人私下交談之時，甚至，僅僅呈現在他攤開稿紙，握筆，開始寫他此次在台北靈感乍現時構思的、那一部描述他那十多年總統生涯的、虛虛實實的政治傳記小說之時。
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