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Václav Havel : living in truth : twenty-two essays published on the occasion of the award of the Erasmus Prize to Václav Havel / edited by Jan Vladislav.

Havel, Václav. (Added Author). Vladislav, Jan, 1923-2009 (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0571144403
  • ISBN: 9780571144402
  • Physical Description: xix, 315 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: Paperback ed.
  • Publisher: London ; Faber and Faber, 1989

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
"A short bio-bibliography of Václav Havel": pages 295-312.
Formatted Contents Note:
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 / Samuel Beckett -- Courtesy towards God / Heinrich Böll -- Prague : a poem, not disappearing / Timothy Garton Ash -- Ex-prophets and storysellers / Jiří Gruša -- From Variations and reflections on topics in Václav Havel's prison letters / Ladislav Hejdánek -- Citizen versus state / Harry Järv -- The chaste centaur / Pavel Kohout -- Conversations 36 / Iva Kotralá -- Candide had to be destroyed / Milan Kundera -- I think about you a great deal / Arthur Miller -- When I was still living in Prague / Zdena Salivarová -- The sorrowful satisfaction of the powerless / Milan Šimečka -- I saw Václav Havel for the last time / Josef Škvorecký -- Introduction to The memorandum / Tom Stoppard -- Letter to a prisoner / Zdeněk Urbǎnek -- On the house / Lukvík Vaculík.
Subject:
Havel, Václav.
Havel, Václav.
Ethics.
Life.
Communism.
Czechoslovakia > Politics and government > 1945-1992.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Communism.
Ethics.
Life.
Politics and government
World politics.
Czechoslovakia.
Czech drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Genre:
Festschriften.

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