Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and pr
An intimate history of Czechoslovakia under communism; a meditation on the social and political role of art, and a triumphant statement of the values underlying all the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.
Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his f
In a book written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel combines the same powerful eloquence, moral passion, and abiding wisdom that informed his writing as a dissident and playwright, with a candor unprecedented from one with the broad p
Elected the first non-communist president of Czechoslovakia in forty years in December of 1989, author Vaclav Havel is one of the most important European writers and intelectuals of our time, and here presents his dignified letters to his wife from prison
Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes a
Contents: pt. 1. Six texts by Václav Havel --Letter to Dr Gustáv Husák --The power of the powerless --Six asides about culture --Politics and conscience --Thriller --An anatomy of reticence --pt. 2. Sixteen texts for Václav Havel --Catastrophe / Samue
