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Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth

by Vaclav Havel · 1986

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Contents:

pt. 1. Six texts by Vaclav Havel —

Letter to Dr Gustav Husak —

The power of the powerless —

Six asides about culture —

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Politics and conscience —

Thriller —

An anatomy of reticence —

pt. 2. Sixteen texts for Vaclav Havel —

Catastrophe / Samuel Beckett —

Courtesy towards God / Heinrich Boll —

Prague : a poem, not disappearing / Timothy Garton Ash —

Ex-prophets and storysellers / Jiri Grusa —

From Variations and reflections on topics in Vaclav Havel's prison letters / Ladislav Hejdanek —

Citizen versus state / Harry Jarv —

The chaste centaur / Pavel Kohout —

Conversations 36 / Iva Kotrala —

Candide had to be destroyed / Milan Kundera —

I think about you a great deal / Arthur Miller —

When I was still living in Prague / Zdena Salivarova —

The sorrowful satisfaction of the powerless / Milan Simecka —

I saw Vaclav Havel for the last time / Josef Skvorecky —

Introduction to The memorandum / Tom Stoppard —

Letter to a prisoner / Zdenek Urbanek —

On the house / Lukvik Vaculik.

Subject
politicshistoryphilosophybiography
Setting
20th centuryCzechoslovakiaEastern Europe
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 315 pages
Form
essays

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