Summer Meditations

Vaclav Havel:
Summer Meditations

Translated from the Gzech
by Paul Wilson

Alfred A. Knopf
New York 1992

Contents
Translator's Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Politics, Morality, and Civility
In a Time of Transition
What I Believe
The Task of Independence
Beyond the Shock of Freedom
Epilogue
Afterword
Background Notes

This is a Borzoi Book
Published by Alfred a Knopf, Inc.

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Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,
New York. Distributed by Random House, Inc., NewYork. Published
simultaneously in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of
Random House of Canada Limited; and in Great Britain by
Faber and Faber Limited.

Original published in Czech in 1991 as Letni premitani by Odeon, Prague.

Portions of this work were originally published in somewhat different
form in The New York Review of Books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Havel, Vaclav
(Letni premitani. English)
Summer meditations / Vaclav Havel,
p.   cm.
Translation of: Letni premitani.
ISBN 0-679-41462-2
1. Czechoslovakia-Politics-and government-1989-
2. Political ethics.   I. Title
DB2241.H38A3 1992b
943_704'3 - dc20            91-58931 CIP

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First American Edition