Living in Truth: 22 Essays Published on the Occasion of the Award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel

Gathers essays by the Czech playwright, and includes writings by other authors in his honor Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Introduction: Asides to readers of Havel's Essays......Page 14 Part One: Six texts by Vaclav Havel......Page 22 1. Letter to Dr Gustav Husak......Page 24 2. The Power of the Powerless......Page 57 3. Six Asides About Culture......Page 144 4. Politics and Conscience......Page 157 5. Thriller......Page 179 6. An Anatomy of Reticence......Page 185 Part Two: Sixteen texts for Vaclav Havel......Page 218 Samuel Beckett: Catastrophe......Page 220 Heinrich Boll: Courtesy towards God......Page 225 3. Timothy Garton Ash: Prague - a poem, not disappearing......Page 234 Jiri Grusa: Ex-prophets and storysellers......Page 243 5. Ladislav Hejdanek: From variations and reflections on topics in Vaclav Havel's prison letters......Page 247 6. Harry Jarv: Citizen versus state......Page 253 7. Pavel Kohout: The chaste centaur......Page 266 8. Iva Kotrla: Conversations 36......Page 272 9. Milan Kundera: Candide had to be destroyed......Page 279 10. Arthur Miller: I think about you a great deal......Page 284 11. Zdena Salivarova: When I was still living in Prague......Page 287 12.. Milan Simecka: The sorrowful satisfaction of the powerless......Page 289 13. Josef Skvorecky: I saw Vaclav Havel for the last time......Page 295 14. Tom Stoppard: Introduction (to The Memorandum)......Page 299 15. Zdenek Urbanek: Letter to a prisoner......Page 302 16. Ludvik Vaculik: On the house......Page 312 A Short Bio-bibliography of Vaclav Havel......Page 316 Contributors......Page 334 pt. 1. Six texts by Václav Havel pt. 2. Sixteen texts for Václav Havel.