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Paperback Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth: Twenty-Two Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel Book

ISBN: 0571144403

ISBN13: 9780571144402

Vaclav Havel: Living in Truth: Twenty-Two Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel

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Gathers essays by the Czech playwright, and includes writings by other authors in his honor." This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Essays and Tributes

For the information of those interested enough to read this review, this book contains six of Vaclav Havel's essays (including the excellent "Power of the Powerless" and an open letter to Gustav Husak) as well as sixteen letters or essays of tribute to Havel (including an essay by Samuel Beckett and another by Arthur Miller). Havel's essays are published in several other works, but I haven't found the letters to and about him in any other book. This is an interesting book about a dissident who, while once challenging authority, had the courage to assume it and with it all of its moral complexities. I also recommend James Sire's book "Vaclav Havel: The International Conscience of International Politics" for a concise and readable introduction to the man and his work.
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