The Vanek Plays (Havel Collection)

The Vanek Plays (Havel Collection) - Paperback

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The Vanek Plays (Havel Collection) - Paperback

The Vanek Plays (Havel Collection) - Paperback

by Vaclav Havel , Vaaclav Havel
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Book Overview

by Vaclav Havel (Author), Vaaclav Havel (Author), Jan Novak (Translator)

The Vaněk Plays are perhaps Václav Havel's best-known works, and the character Vaněk became a symbol for Czechoslovak dissidents during the Communist era. In the plays, Audience, Protest, and Unveiling, Vaněk encounters people trapped by the moral dilemmas inherent in a Communist system. Also included is Havel's modern sequel, the previously unpublished Dozens of Cousins. All translated by Jan Novak. Part of the Havel Collection, a series of new translations of the work of Václav Havel, from Theater 61 Press.

Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.47 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: October 05, 2012
ISBN9780977019779
Author Vaclav Havel , Vaaclav Havel
PublisherTheater 61 Press
GenreHistory and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Vaclav Havel

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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