by Vaclav Havel (Author), Paul Wilson (Translator)
Vaclav Havel was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. He is a leading playwright and has long been involved in the human rights movement in Czechoslovakia - and was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment for this close association. In January 1932, for reasons of health, he was released from prison before his sentence was completed. The letters he wrote to his wife were published as "Letters to Olga". Practically everything Havel has ever written has acquired a new resonance since he became President of Czechoslovakia in 1989. This selection of his early prose ranges in time from the early 60s to his New Year message in 1990.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 06 Jul 1992
ISBN 10: 0571165214
ISBN 13: 9780571165216
Book Overview: Open Letters: Selected Prose by Vaclav Havel covers the enormously important Czech writer's prose between the early 1960s and his New Year message - as president of the newly democratic Czechoslovakia - in 1990.