Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel's Life in the TheaterVaclav Havel -- dissident, human rights activist, essayist, philosopher, politician, founder and president of the Czech Republic - is known throughout the world as a hero of the human rights movement and martyr for the "right to write" (he was imprisoned many times under communism in his country). But few of us in the West know that he is also his country's most famous dramatist. This book tells the dramatic story of his life in the theater during three dark decades under communism, and the extreme risks that he and many otheres took to put on his plays. A unique interweaving of the influences of politics and theater revealed in a spellbinding narrative of the life of Vaclav Havel during Czechoslovakia's struggle for freedom. |
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... Café Slavia , whose atmosphere they adored . The café had a long and rich tradition . Dating from the early 1900s , the L - shaped space looks today very much as it did when the 36ers frequented it : a stylish Art Nouveau décor with ...
... Café Slavia , whose atmosphere they adored . The café had a long and rich tradition . Dating from the early 1900s , the L - shaped space looks today very much as it did when the 36ers frequented it : a stylish Art Nouveau décor with ...
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... Café Slavia ; it was , in fact , the table right next to theirs . The idols they had been waiting to meet had been sitting alongside them all that time . Even after the 36ers disbanded in 1954 , Havel kept his table at the Café Slavia ...
... Café Slavia ; it was , in fact , the table right next to theirs . The idols they had been waiting to meet had been sitting alongside them all that time . Even after the 36ers disbanded in 1954 , Havel kept his table at the Café Slavia ...
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... Café Slavia , " values that became his foundation . As he said years later in Disturbing the Peace , his life as a writer “ would be unimaginable without [ Kolář's ] initial lesson in a writer's responsibility . " 17 The early fifties ...
... Café Slavia , " values that became his foundation . As he said years later in Disturbing the Peace , his life as a writer “ would be unimaginable without [ Kolář's ] initial lesson in a writer's responsibility . " 17 The early fifties ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
A Young Writer Makes His Debut | 17 |
PART II | 25 |
Copyright | |
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