“Bury Me Standing”
The Gypsies and Their Journey
 
„Pohřběte mě vestoje“
Romové a jejich cesta
 
The British Council
 
 
Isabel Fonseca
Isabel Fonseca was educated at Columbia University and Oxford University. She was  
an assistant editor at the Times Literary Supplement and she edited Soho Square. She has written for a wide range of publications including the Independent, Vogue, The Nation and  
The Wall Street Journal. Bury Me Standing was published in 1995. She lives in London.  

Vystudovala na Kolumbijské univerzitě  
a v Oxfordu. Působila jako zástupkyně redaktora měsíčníku Times Literary Supplement a jako editorka Soho Square. Píše pro řadu periodik jako Independent, Vogue, The Nation a Wall Street Journal. Bury Me Standing vyšlo v roce 1995. Žije v Londýně. 
 
  
  
Nostalgia is the essence of Gypsy song, and seems always to have been. But nostalgia for what? Nostos is the Greek for a ‚a return home‘; the Gypsies have no home, and, perhaps uniquely among peoples, they have no dream of a homeland. Utopia – ou topos – means  
‚no place‘. Nostalgia for utopia: a return home to no place. O lungo drom. The long road. 
 
 
  15:00  Útery 21. dubna  Britská rada  Národní 10, Praha 1 
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