num_pages: 315
description: 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 / 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.
language: English
title: Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth
titlecomplete: Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth
genres: Activism, Czech Literature, 20th Century, Biography, Essays, History, Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Cultural
ratings_count: 197
publisher: Faber & Faber