Letters to Olga

Letters to Olga
June 1979 - September 1982

Translated from Czech with an Introduction by Paul Wilson

Alfred A. Knopf New York 1988

Contents

Preface
Introduction
I. Letters 1-17
II. Letters 18-86
III. Letters 87-128
IV. Letters 129-144
Notes
Glossary of Names
Index

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York.
Originally published in Germany as Briefe an Olga by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg

Copyright © 1984 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg.
Dopisy Olze (cerven 1979-zari 1982)
Copyright © 1983 by Vaclav Havel.
Published by arrangement with Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg.

Published in Canada as Dopisy Olze (cerven 1979-zari 1982) by Sixty- Eight Publishers Corp., Toronto, in 1985.

"Letters From Prison" by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson was originally published in the Spring 1987, Number 21 issue of Granta.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Macmillan Publishing Company for permission to reprint an excerpt from Letters and Papers from Prison: The Enlarged Edition, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, edited by Eberhard Bethge. Copyright © 1953, 1967, 1971 by SCM Press Ltd. Reprinted by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Havel, Vaclav. Letters to Olga: June 1979-September 1982. Translation of: Dopisy Olze.
ISBN 0-394-54795-0

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