Hunting for Havel
July 29th 2009 Although I knew of Václav Havel before I began the seminar in Berlin, I admit that my prior knowledge of his life and work were, well, cursory. I knew he was a playwright-dissident who had become the first post-communist president of Czechoslovakia. That was about it. But many of us in the program became big fans of his writing and ideas as we read his Power of the Powerless and Summer Meditation
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