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The Art of the Impossible: Politics As Morality in Practice : Speeches and Writings, 1990-1996 - Hardcover

Havel, Vaclav

 
9780679451068: The Art of the Impossible: Politics As Morality in Practice : Speeches and Writings, 1990-1996
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679451064 ISBN 13: 9780679451068
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

In a collection of writings that span from 1990 to 1996, the president of the Czech Republic shares his thoughts on the world of politics, from his first days in office, through his initiation into the complexities of foreign affairs and his country's division, to the present day. 17,500 first printing.

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Born in Czechoslovakia in 1936, Václav Havel is a noted playwright, a founding spokesman of Charter 77, and the author of many influential essays on totalitarianism and dissent. In 1979 he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for his involvement in the Czech human-rights movement. In November 1989 he helped found the Civic Forum, his country's first legal opposition movement in forty years, and the following month he became president of Czechoslovakia. Since January 1993 he has been president of the Czech Republic.<br><br>Paul Wilson lived in Czechoslovakia from 1967 to 1977. Since his return to Canada in 1978 he has translated into English work by many Czech writers, including Josef Skvoreck&acute;y, Bohumil Hrabal, and Ivan Klíma, and has translated and edited most of Václav Havel's prose

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shortage of politicians who make a habit of shooting from the hip, but it is much rarer to find one who speaks from the heart. Václav Havel knows no other way to speak, or to write. Both as a dissident and as a playwright it was his sworn purpose for many years to combat evil with nothing but truth. As president of Czechoslovakia, and now of the Czech Republic, he has clung to that habit, refusing to turn over either his conscience or his voice to political handlers and professional speechwriters. Instead he assumes the additional burden--for him, it is a distinct pleasure--of composing all of his oratory. Audiences from New York to New Delhi, Oslo to Tokyo, have been the luckier for his decision. <br><br>This volume consists of thirty-five of these essays, written between the years 1990 and 1996, that manage to be both profoundly personal and profoundly political. Havel writes of totalitarianism, its miseries and the nonetheless difficult emergence from it. <br><br>He describes how h

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Verlag
Alfred A. Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679451064
ISBN 13 
9780679451068
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
273
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