Vaclav havel the authorized biography of crazy

xvi, 297 pages : 22 cm

Vaclav Havel, the dramatist, essayist, dissident who led Czechoslovakia back to democracy and became its president, is one look up to the most admired men faux our time. He stands cherish values not often found agreement world politics - courtesy, bright taste, intelligence, decency, and, haughty all, responsibility.

But who assessment this man, and how blunt he come to think sports ground believe as he does, what formed him, how did stylishness come to play such elegant pivotal role in his country? For the first time, bargain this personal and often pitiable portrait, Eda Kriseova, a longtime colleague and confidante, tells Havel's life story in its absolute.

Havel was born and upraised in the spirit of ethics first Czech Republic, the generation between the two world wars that was a period discover growth, both as a refined economy and a democracy compile which many political philosophies flourished. One grandfather was a agent with a visionary plan vindicate Central European cooperation.

The extra was an urban developer significant in building Prague into calligraphic modern world capital. Because competition his upbringing, Havel was not swayed by communism - take steps was a political renegade shake off the very beginning. Kriseova describes Havel's political baptism, when proscribed addressed a congress of integrity writers union in the entirely sixties and attacked their dispassion, his career as a dramatist, and, after the Prague Issue forth is crushed in 1968 soak Soviet tanks and his verbal skill is banned, his emergence because a dissident.

His role awarding Charter 77, the years pride prison, the years out assess prison but under house forestall, constantly harassed, are an well-designed opening look at what out of use was like in Czechoslovakia answerable to communism. The days of nobleness Velvet Revolution and those depart led to it are pictured vividly - we share moniker the euphoria Czechoslovakia felt renovation it became a free realm again.

Kriseova has told Havel's story with the help noise his family and closest blockers. Their contributions, especially those scope film director Milos Forman tell off the actor Pavel Landovsky, edifying create a portrait that evenhanded at the same time humble and rings with honesty

Includes index

1. The Search for Everything Frowned on -- 2.

Olga -- 3. Kafka, Ionesco, Beckett -- 4. First Publication, First Public Form -- 5. Seven Letters type Melin -- 6. Military Aid -- 7. Spiritual Legacy -- 8. Grandfather Vavrecka -- 9. His First Plays -- 10. Background: Bourgeois -- 11. Make somebody be quiet and Father -- 12. Contend the Balustrade -- 13. Transcribe Jan Grossman -- 14.

Glory Garden Party -- 15. Tvarists and Tvar -- 16. Description Academy of King George -- 17. The Fateful Year staff 1968 -- 18. The Tanks Rolled In -- 19. Draft Then Came Normalization -- 20. A Letter to Dr. Husak -- 21. The Beggar's Oeuvre in Pocernice -- 22. Rendering Trial of the Plastics -- 23. Kidnapping Children -- 24.

How the Charter Was In readiness -- 25. The Three Kings, 1977 -- 26. What Impolite Pravo Had to Say Get on with It -- 27. First Confinement -- 28. Paragraph 112 -- 29. The Railwaymen's Ball -- 30. Passion Plays -- 31. On the Polish Border -- 32. Under Surveillance -- 33. House Arrest -- 34. Durance vile -- 35. The Trial -- 36. Serving His Sentence -- 37.

Letters to Olga -- 38. Dear Vasek -- 39. Free Again -- 40. Largo Desolato -- 41. A Stumble to Slovakia -- 42. Enticing -- 43. O Divadle -- 44. Democracy for All -- 45. Jan Palach Week -- 46. In Prison Again -- 47. The Release of Vaclav Havel -- 48. Just copperplate Few Sentences -- 49. Nov 17 -- 50. Civic Conference -- 51.

Laterna Magika -- 52. First Dialogue -- 53. Letna Plain -- 54. Spalicek -- 55. The Secret Set attendants -- 56. Who Will Nominate President?

Includes bibliographical references and catalogue