Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. This study reveals a Havel, dramatising the key moments of joy, misery, triumph and tragedy on which his life has turned.  Meer

Václav Havel (1936) wordt met zijn toneelstuk Het tuinfeest (1963) als de grondlegger beschouwd van het absurdistisch theater in het toenmalige Tsjechoslowakije.  Meer

Vertaling en inleiding Kees Mercks Al vóór de Praagse Lente schreef Václav Havel (1936-2011), de dissidente schrijver die later president werd, verschillende avondvullende stukken.  Meer

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 pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period.  Meer

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 7, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period.  Meer

The plays in this volume include "Largo Desolato", "Temptation" and "Redevelopment" in versions by Tom Stoppard, George Theiner and James Saunders, respectively.  Meer

Vaclav Havel is one of the most important European writers of our time. These letters form a remarkable document, and a work of lasting value. 'From Havel, we learn that the true heroes of our time are those who stay the course.  Meer

Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite!  Meer