Open Letters

Informationen zum Autor Václav Havel was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. Among his plays, those best known in the West are The Garden Party , The Memorandum , Largo Desolato, Temptation , and three one-act plays, Audience , Private View and Protest . He is a founding spokesman of Charter 77 and the author of many influential essays on the nature of totalitarianism and dissent. In 1979 he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for his involvement in the human rights movement. Out of this imprisonment came his book of letters to his wife, Letters to Olga (1981). In November 1989 he helped to found the Civic Forum, the first legal opposition movement in Czechoslovakia in forty years; in December 1989 he was elected President of Czechoslovakia; and in 1994 became the first President of the independent Czech Republic. His memoir, To the Castle and Back , was published in 2007. Open Letters: Selected Prose by Vaclav Havel covers the enormously important Czech writer's prose between the early 1960s and his New Year message - as president of the newly democratic Czechoslovakia - in 1990. Zusammenfassung Virtually everything Vaclav Havel has ever written has acquired a new resonance! whether ironic! artistic! philosophical or political! since he became President of his country in 1989. This selection of his prose ranges in time from the early 1960s to his New Year message of 1990.

Product details

• Authors: Vaclav Havel
• Assisted by: Paul Wilson (Editor), Paul Wilson (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.1992
• EAN: 9780571165216
• ISBN: 978-0-571-16521-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Diaries, letters & journals, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, c 1960 to c 1970, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989