Václav Havel or Living in Truth

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Contents: pt. 1. Six texts by Václav Havel -- Letter to Dr Gustáv Husák -- The power of the powerless -- Six asides about culture -- Politics and conscience -- Thriller -- An anatomy of reticence -- pt. 2. Sixteen texts for Václav Havel -- Catastrophe / Samuel Beckett -- Courtesy towards God / Heinrich Böll -- Prague : a poem, not disappearing / Timothy Garton Ash -- Ex-prophets and storysellers / Jiří Gruša -- From Variations and reflections on topics in Václav Havel's prison letters / Ladislav Hejdánek -- Citizen versus state / Harry Järv -- The chaste centaur / Pavel Kohout -- Conversations 36 / Iva Kotralá -- Candide had to be destroyed / Milan Kundera -- I think about you a great deal / Arthur Miller -- When I was still living in Prague / Zdena Salivarová -- The sorrowful satisfaction of the powerless / Milan Šimečka -- I saw Václav Havel for the last time / Josef Škvorecký -- Introduction to The memorandum / Tom Stoppard -- Letter to a prisoner / Zdeněk Urbǎnek -- On the house / Lukvík Vaculík.