01509nam a2200241Ia 4500 CTU_158293 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 27.50 943.7043092 K24 Keane, John Václav Havel : A political tragedy in six acts John Keane London Bloomsbury 1999 For more than 30 years, Czechoslovakian playwright Václav Havel courageously asserted the primacy of individual imagination and morality against his homeland's monolithic communist state. After the Velvet Revolution, his fellow citizens rewarded him with the presidency of newly democratic Czechoslovakia, yet political controversy and ill health have dogged him during his decade in power. British historian John Keane's commendably balanced biography provides a full account of the stylistically innovative, politically challenging plays that made Havel's reputation; the pioneering human rights activism expressed in the famous Charter 77 petition; his friendships and quarrels with fellow intellectuals like Milan Kundera; and his skirmishes with the authorities, beginning with a speech defending artistic freedom delivered when he was 20 and culminating in several jail sentences. Presidents,Dissenters Biography,Biography Czechoslovakia,Czechoslovakia Giang Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ