Imprisoned in 1979 for supporting the Czech human rights movement, Charter 77, Vaclav Havel, an important European writer and intellectual, wrote weekly to his wife, Olga. His letters contain his reflections on philosophy, the arts and society and are a testimony to his dignity and courage.
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About the Author:
Vaclav Havel was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. Among his plays, those best known in the West areThe 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.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber Ltd
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0571137024
- ISBN 13 9780571137022
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages397
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