Selected Plays: 1984-1987: Largo Desolato; Temptation; Redevelopment - Softcover

Havel, Vaclav

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571172113 ISBN 13: 9780571172115

Publisher: Vaclav Havel, 1994

Synopsis

The plays in this volume, which complements Selected Plays 1963-1983 are Largo Desolato, Temptation and Redevelopment in versions by Tom Stoppard, George Theiner and James Saunders respectively.

Their themes are freedom of thought, Faustian opportunism and town planning as metaphors for life in Eastern Europe before the collapse of Communism, all handled with their author's characteristic wit and irony, and written before he was translated from a prison to the highest office of state.

About this title

Book Description:

The Selected Plays: 1984-1987 of pre-eminent Czech writer and thinker Vaclav Havel includes Largo Desolato, Temptation and Redevelopment in three definitive translations by Tom Stoppard, George Theiner and James Saunders respectively.

About the Author:

Václav Havel was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. Among his plays, those best known in the West areThe Garden Party, The Memorandum, Largo Desolato, Temptation, and three one-act plays, Audience,Private View and Protest. He is a founding spokesman of Charter 77 and the author of many influential essays on the nature of totalitarianism and dissent. In 1979 he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for his involvement in the human rights movement. Out of this imprisonment came his book of letters to his wife, Letters to Olga (1981). In November 1989 he helped to found the Civic Forum, the first legal opposition movement in Czechoslovakia in forty years; in December 1989 he was elected President of Czechoslovakia; and in 1994 became the first President of the independent Czech Republic. His memoir, To the Castle and Back, was published in 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vaclav Havel
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0571172113
• ISBN 13: 9780571172115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216