A pesar de sufrir personalmente las consecuencias del odio en su país, Václav Havel se aproxima a él como intelectual y como observador inquieto, examinando el deseo de absoluto que esconde esta pasión como odio personal y tamb...
El poder de los sin poder es el libro pragmático de Václav Havel: una serie de ensayos políticos en los que su autor sostiene que el mundo dominado por la técnica debe evolucionar hacia otro en el que una «revolució...
A través de una larga entrevista con Karel Hvízd'ala, Havel disecciona las siempre difíciles relaciones entre política y literatura, su vinculación al teatro Na Zabradli, los días de lucha contra el régimen...
Entre 1979 y 1983, Václav Havel poseyó un único pero valioso privilegio como escritor, concedido por las autoridades de la prisión checoslovaca donde se encontraba recluido por delitos contra la seguridad del estado: escribir...
Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocerâs unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves?
Forming part of the Vanek Plays trilogy, Audience is a cleverly-constructed satire on power and those who wield it. Vanek is summoned to a meeting with the Head Maltster and offered promotion, but only if he informs on himself!
The Czech President Vaclav Havel, a force on behalf of international human rights and his country's most celebrated dissident, first gained prominence as a playwright. During the period when Havel was blacklisted by the Czechoslovakian government for...
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...
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.