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020 _a9780679738114
082 _a909.82
_bH2O7
100 _aHavel, Vaclav
_9209700
245 _aOpen letters: selected writings 1965-1990
250 _a11th ed.
260 _c1992
_bVintage
_aNew York
300 _axiv, 415 p.
500 _aTranslated from the Czech. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1991.
504 _aIncludes index.
520 _aSpanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, "I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you." Some of the pieces in Open Letters, such as "Dear Dr. Husak" and the essay "The Power of the Powerless," are by now almost legendary for their influence on a generation of Eastern European dissidents; others, such as some of Havel's prison correspondence and his private letter to Alexander Dubcek, appear in English for the first time. All of them bear the unmistakable imprint of Havel's intellectual rigor, moral conviction, and unassuming eloquence, while standing as important additions to the world's literature of conscience.
650 _aGeneral
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650 _aWorld politics --1945-1989, Ethics
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650 _aCzechoslovakia - Politics and government - 1989-1992
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650 _aCzechoslovakia --Politics and government --1968-1989
_9209495
650 _aLife
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650 _aCommunism
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700 _aWilson, Paul
_eEditor
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942 _cBK
999 _c175147
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