Václav Havel Book order

Collects the conversations between the former president of the Czech Republic and the editor in chief of the largest daily newspaper in Poland, beginning in the 1970s and continuing as they lived through a tumultuous era in Central Europe.

Office Party volně převádí první hru Václava Havla, Zahradní slavnost, do světa kapitalistických kanceláří a idiomu americké angličtiny. Její hrdina Hugo však zůstává mladým mužem, který nedělá nic jiného, než že hraje šachy sám se sebou. Ovšem když ho jednoho dne otec vyštve nahánět konexe na zahradní slavnost ohromné instituce, tak se tam Hugo rychle zapojí do práce Likvidačního úřadu. Tím pádem sice dál hraje šachy jenom sám se sebou, ovšem teď tahá černými i bílými figurkami jako výkonný orgán.

Kniha obsahuje tři jednoaktové hry Václava Havla v dvojjazyčném vydání. Audience, Vernisáž a Protest. Český originální text je vždy na protilehlé straně doplněn anglickým překladem. Překlad Jan Novák. Kniha je doplněna úvodním historickým kontextem a vzpomínkami Václava Havla na trutnovský pivovar.

"Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home for years? While his former secretary, and the former secretary to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to face an uncertain future, the chancellor himself considers his legacy amid visits from journalists, an infatuated student and his arch-rival and possible successor, Patrick Klein. With echoes of both King Lear and The Cherry Orchard, Vaclav Havel's Leaving addresses the themes of change, dispossession and the transfer of power from one generation to the next."--Page 4 of cover

This work is the result of the Forum 2000 conferences initiated by Václav Havel and Elie Wiesel. The book is based mainly on the first five conferences which were held in Prague from 1997.  The first essay written by Václav Havel deals with spiritual preconditions of the global survival of humankind, and the second one is the quintessence of Havel's views on the world which we have inherited as well as his views on our hopes for the future. The book closes with Havel's personal reflection on the deeper meaning and aim of the Forum 2000 meetings.  Subsequent chapters analyze and interpret the ideas that were expressed by the speakers and interlocutors of the first five conferences in which they tried to identify and understand the primary issues facing mankind globally. Reflections deal with the main dimensions of globalization and with their synchronicities as well as asynchronicities based on the quintessences of the annual conference reports.

As writer, dissident, and statesman, Havel played an essential part in the changes that occurred in Central Europe during the last decades of the twentieth century, and became a powerful intellectual and political force for the reestablishment of democratic principles and institutions. Now, in this memoir, he recollects the pivotal experiences and ideas of his remarkable life. Known in his native Prague for his theatrical productions, and imprisoned for his anticommunist views, Havel emerged on the international stage in 1989 as the elected president of Czechoslovakia. He writes with eloquence and candor about his transition from playwright to politician, and the surreal challenges of governing a young democracy. But the scope of his writing extends far beyond the circumstances he faced in his own country. He shares his thoughts on the future of the EU, the reach of the American superpower, and the role of national identity in today's world.--From publisher description.

Obrazová publikace sleduje spolupráci prezidenta Havla a jeho hradního architekta B. Šípka v letech 1992 - 2002 při úpravách Pražského hradu.