Living in Truth

Vaclav Havel
Living in Truth

Twenty-two essays published on the occasion of the award of the Erasmus Prize to Vaclav Havel

Edited by Jan Vladislav

Faber and Faber London-Boston

Introduction by Jan Vladislav:
Asides to readers of Havel's essays
(translated by A. G. Brain)

1 Letter to Dr. Gustav Husak
2 The power of the powerless
   (translated by P. Wilson)
3 Six asides about culture
   (translated by E. Kohak)
4 Politics and conscience
   (translated by E. Kohak and R. Scruton)
5 Thriller
   (translated by P. Wilson)
6 An anatomy of reticence
   (translated by E. Kohak)

1 Samuel Beckett: Catastrophe
2 Heinrich Boll: Courtesy towards God
   (translated by J. R. Littelboy)
3 Timothy Garton Ash: Prague - a poem, not disappearing
4 Jiri Grusa: Ex-prophets and storysellers
   (translated by D. Armour)
5 Ladislav Hejdanek: from
   Variations and reflections on topics
   in Vaclav Havel's prison letters
   (translated by D. Viney)
6 Harry Jarv: Citizen versus state
7 Pavel Kohout: The chaste centaur
   (translated by M. Pomichalek and A. Mozga)
8 Iva Kotrla: Conversations 36
   (translated by D. Viney)
9 Milan Kundera: Candide had to be destroyed
   (translated by K.Seigneurie)
10 Arthur Miller: I think about you a great deal
11 Zdena Salivarova: When I was still living in Prague
12 Milan Simecka: The sorrowful satisfaction of the powerless
     (translated by A. G. Brain)
13 Josef Skvorecky: I saw Vaclav Havel for the last time
14 Tom Stoppard: Introduction (to The Memorandum)
15 Zdenek Urbanek: Letter to a prisoner
     (translated by G. Theiner)
16 Ludvik Vaculik: On the house
     (translated by A. G. Brain)

First published in The Netherlands in 1986 by Meulenhoff Amsterdam in association with Faber and Faber
First published in Great Britain in 1987 by Faber and Faber Limited
3 Queen Square London WC1N 3AU
This paperback edition first published in 1989
Reprinted 1990 (four times)

Letter to Dr Gustav Husak (Dopis Gustavu Husakovi)
© Vaclav Havel, 1975
Six asides about culture (Sest poznamek o kulture)
© Vaclav Havel, 1984
Politics and conscience (Politika a svedomi)
© Vaclav Havel, 1984
An anatomy of reticence (Anafomie einer zuruckhaltung/Anatomie jedne zdrzenlivosti)
© Vaclav Havel, 1985

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