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  • Audience by Havel, Václav
    Vaclav Havel

    Audience

    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 2 menAuthor: Vaclav HavelISBN-10: 0573042268ISBN-13:...
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  • Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala

    Although in many ways this book stands as an informal autobiography of the playwright turned statesman, these eloquent and often witty interviews do much more than just recapitulate how Vaclav Havel helped transform Czechoslovakia into a democracy. Havel gives insights into Czech history, the...
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  • Largo Desolato by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    Largo Desolato: A Play in Seven Scenes

    Professor Leopold Nettles, the "hero" of Largo Desolato, is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph laying him open to arrest on charges of "disturbing the intellectual peace." Pressed by the government to recant, Nettles is tor­tured-by internal demons as well...
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  • Leaving (Havel Collection) by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    Leaving (Havel Collection)

    Leaving was the first play written by V clav Havel after his final term as President of The Czech Republic. Inspired by Lear and The Cherry Orchard, Havel writes of a man forced to leave the state owned villa he has called home for...
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  • On Tolerance: Czech Writers by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    Literature and Tolerance: Views from Prague

    In the face of Europe's rising nationalism and intolerance, this timely anthology by Czech writers addresses a key issue for today. The courage of Czech writers is legendary. During the Cold War they kept their nation's conscience alive by clandestine publishing while imprisoned as...
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  • Memo (Havel Collection) by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    Memo (Havel Collection)

    The Memo is one of V clav Havel's most popular plays, and this new translation is by Havel's most prolific translator, Paul Wilson. An office has adopted a new official language, Ptydepe, in an attempt to make communication more scientific. But the new language...
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  • Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990

    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 fellow citizens begins, I assume you did...
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  • Private View by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    Private View

    Author: Vaclav HavelISBN-10: 0573122121ISBN-13: 9780573122125Publisher: Samuel French LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1991Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.07d
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  • Summer Meditations by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    Summer Meditations

    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 perspective and infinite responsibility...
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  • Temptation by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    Temptation

    In his most challenging work to date, Czech playwright Vaclav Havel has given the Faust legend a provocative twist. His setting is the Institute, whose mission is to combat the irrational tendencies in society through its scientific work. Personal and professional relationships at this...
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  • The Beggar's Opera by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    The Beggar's Opera

    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 his political activism, productions of his work...
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  • The Garden Party: And Other Plays by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    The Garden Party: And Other Plays

    Author: Vaclav Havel, Vaaclav HavelISBN-10: 080213307XISBN-13: 9780802133076Publisher: Grove PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/1994Pages: 273Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d
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  • The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Havel Collection) by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Havel Collection)

    The Increased Difficulty of Concentration is a metaphysical farce, written by dissident Czechoslovak playwright (and future president) V clav Havel. Hummel, an academic, juggles lovers, philosophy, and the questions from a strange machine called Pazuk, while trying to make sense of his life. A...
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  • The Pig, or Vaclav Havel's Hunt for a Pig (Havel Collection) by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    The Pig, or Vaclav Havel's Hunt for a Pig (Havel Collection)

    The Pig, or V clav Havel's Hunt for a Pig was Havel's final theater piece, a shaggy-dog tale set at a pig roast and filled with music. Vladim r Mor vek took an old dialogue of Havel's, combined it with Smetana's The Bartered Bride,...
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  • The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

    Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling...
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  • The Vanek Plays (Havel Collection) by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    The Vanek Plays (Havel Collection)

    The Vaněk Plays are perhaps V clav Havel's best-known works, and the character Vaněk became a symbol for Czechoslovak dissidents during the Communist era. In the plays, Audience, Protest, and Unveiling, Vaněk encounters people trapped by the moral dilemmas inherent in a Communist system....
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  • To the Castle and Back by Havel, Vaclav
    Vaclav Havel

    To the Castle and Back

    From the former president of the Czech Republic comes this first-hand account of his years in office and the transition to democracy following the fall of Communism. A renowned playwright, V clav Havel became one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent dissidents under Communist rule -...
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