Granta 21, Spring 1987: The Storyteller

OLIVER SACKS

Václav Havel

Bill Buford

isabel-allende

Ptimo Levi

Granta Publications Ltd.

Gathers essays about a cyclone, Des Moines, Iowa, Beirut, the thirties, Essex, constellations, chickens, Lima, and Samoa

Granta 23, Spring 1988: Home

Literature & Fiction

JONATHAN RABAN

JEANETTE WINTERSON

T.Coraghessan Boyle

History & Criticism

Granta Books

Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth

Faber&Faber

Summer Meditations

In a book written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel combines the same powerful eloquence, moral passion, and abiding wisdom that informed his writing as a dissident and playwright, with a candor unprecedented from one with the broad perspective and infinite responsibility of governing a country. Havel, now president of the Czech Republic, addresses the legacy of Communism as the euphoria of the Velvet Revolution gives way to a more problematic reality. Yet even as he grapples with the challenges of political change, he affirms his belief in a politics motivated by moral responsibility; in an economy tempered by compassion; and in the central roles of art and culture in the transformation of society. Summer Meditations is not only a timely and necessary testament of events in Eastern Europe but a profound reflection upon the nature and practice of politics and a stirring call for morality, civility, and openness in public life throughout the world.

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage Books/Random House

Tells about his political and theatrical work, and his view of recent events in Eastern Europe

Disturbing The Peace: A Conversation wiith Karel Hvizdala

Alfred.A. Knopf

Largo Desolato

English Version by Tom Stoppard

Grove Press,1987

Gathers essays by the Czech playwright, and includes writings by other authors in his honor

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

In the writer Ferdinand Vanek, the character common to all three of these one-act plays, Vaclav Havel has probably come closest to creating a personal dramatic alter ego. In "Protest", Vanek meets a successful fellow-writer, "Audience" is set in a brewery, and he is a dinner guest in "Unveiling".

Three Vanek Plays: Audience / Unveiling / Protest

Dramas & Plays

Faber and Faber

Selected Plays, 1963-83

Faber and Faber Ltd.

This collection of plays includes "The Garden Party", "The Memorandum", "The Increased Difficulty of Concentration" and "Mistake".

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