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Half-Prophets and Literati: A Collection of Reviews by Havel
Half-Prophets and Literati: A Collection of Reviews by Havel
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This book collects thirty-eight Eastern and Western writers, scholars and intellectuals who have studied and commented on Havel's writings in the past thirty years. Through the four themes of "Understanding Havel", "Understanding Havel", "Deconstructing Havel" and "Virtual Havel", it presents the political actions and thoughts of Havel so far in his life by Eastern and Western writers, intellectuals and exiled writers. and different perceptions and interpretations of literary works.
Havel's literary and ideological legacy is not just the words Havel himself wrote, nor is it just the research, comments and questioning of his thoughts, literature and behavior, it also includes the world's continued attention and scrutiny of him, facing himself A profound exposition and reflection on the social environment and the human condition. These reflections and thoughts are precious, even as important as Havel's own thoughts and words.
About Javier:
Wenceslas. Václav Havel (1936-2011), a playwright, dissident, thinker, politician, etc., was also the most internationally influential human rights worker.
Born in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, in 1936, he began to engage in drama creation in the early 1960s and is the most important playwright in the Czech Republic. After the "Prague Spring" in 1968, he became involved in political activities and was a representative figure of the "Charter 77" movement in Czechoslovakia. In 1979, he was sentenced and imprisoned by the Czechoslovak communist government for "subversion of the republic". He was released in 1983, and many other Imprisoned once. He was the soul of the "Velvet Revolution" in which the Czechoslovak people overthrew the authoritarian rule of the Communist Party.
Havel served as President of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic (1990-1992) and twice as President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003). The play "Garden Party" premiered in 1963; "Notice" (1965) and "It's Getting Hard to Concentrate" (1968) won the New York Off-Broadway Drama Award (Obie Award). Other plays include "The Conspirator" (1970), "The Beggar's Opera" (1975), "The Audience" (1975), "The Hotel on the Mountain" (1976), "Protest" (1978), "The Mistake" (1983) , "Slow" (1984), "Temptation" (1985), "Improving Sanitation" (1987), "Tomorrow" (1988), "Leaving" (2007), Dozens of Cousins (Pět Tet, 2009 – a short sketch /sequel to Unveiling), The Pig, or Václav Havel's Hunt for a Pig (Prase) (2009), etc.
The Chinese translations of Havel's works include "Torture from a Distance - Havel's Autobiography", "Prison Book - To His Wife Olga" (intended for publication), "The Power of the Powerless", "Goodbye Politics!" ” (Tianjin/Left Bank Publishing), “Anti-Code—Havier’s Image Poems” (Tangshan/Tangshan Publishing), “Selected Works of Havel’s Dramas” (Tianjin/Shulin Publishing), “The Art of the Impossible” (Tianjin/Tangshan Publishing) the Impossible) (1998, Chinese translation to be released), To the Castle and Back (2007, Chinese translation to be released), etc.
Havel's literary and ideological legacy is not just the words Havel himself wrote, nor is it just the research, comments and questioning of his thoughts, literature and behavior, it also includes the world's continued attention and scrutiny of him, facing himself A profound exposition and reflection on the social environment and the human condition. These reflections and thoughts are precious, even as important as Havel's own thoughts and words.
About Javier:
Wenceslas. Václav Havel (1936-2011), a playwright, dissident, thinker, politician, etc., was also the most internationally influential human rights worker.
Born in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, in 1936, he began to engage in drama creation in the early 1960s and is the most important playwright in the Czech Republic. After the "Prague Spring" in 1968, he became involved in political activities and was a representative figure of the "Charter 77" movement in Czechoslovakia. In 1979, he was sentenced and imprisoned by the Czechoslovak communist government for "subversion of the republic". He was released in 1983, and many other Imprisoned once. He was the soul of the "Velvet Revolution" in which the Czechoslovak people overthrew the authoritarian rule of the Communist Party.
Havel served as President of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic (1990-1992) and twice as President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003). The play "Garden Party" premiered in 1963; "Notice" (1965) and "It's Getting Hard to Concentrate" (1968) won the New York Off-Broadway Drama Award (Obie Award). Other plays include "The Conspirator" (1970), "The Beggar's Opera" (1975), "The Audience" (1975), "The Hotel on the Mountain" (1976), "Protest" (1978), "The Mistake" (1983) , "Slow" (1984), "Temptation" (1985), "Improving Sanitation" (1987), "Tomorrow" (1988), "Leaving" (2007), Dozens of Cousins (Pět Tet, 2009 – a short sketch /sequel to Unveiling), The Pig, or Václav Havel's Hunt for a Pig (Prase) (2009), etc.
The Chinese translations of Havel's works include "Torture from a Distance - Havel's Autobiography", "Prison Book - To His Wife Olga" (intended for publication), "The Power of the Powerless", "Goodbye Politics!" ” (Tianjin/Left Bank Publishing), “Anti-Code—Havier’s Image Poems” (Tangshan/Tangshan Publishing), “Selected Works of Havel’s Dramas” (Tianjin/Shulin Publishing), “The Art of the Impossible” (Tianjin/Tangshan Publishing) the Impossible) (1998, Chinese translation to be released), To the Castle and Back (2007, Chinese translation to be released), etc.
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