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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.
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"Unquestionably [Havel's] finest work...Part autobiography, part history, part esthetics, [it] finds its unity in the personal qualities that catapulted a lonely dissenter...into prominence as the reluctant president of his country....Disturbing the Peace leaves no room for controversy about his place in the moral pantheon of our century."--The New York Times Book Review
"Merits our utmost attention....A truly Jeffersonian vision...That vision, so respectful of human rights in Czechoslovakia, could affect social change in any country."--Washington Post Book World
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"Merits our utmost attention....A truly Jeffersonian vision...That vision, so respectful of human rights in Czechoslovakia, could affect social change in any country."--Washington Post Book World
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 1989 he helped to found the Civic Forum, the first legal opposition movement in Czechoslovakia in 40 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. He died in 2011 at the age of 75.
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- Publication date1991
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