Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace

A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala

Translation from Czech and with an Introduction by Paul Wilson

Alfred A. Knopf New York 1990

Contents

Preface
Introduction
I. Growing Up "Outside"
II. Writing for the Stage
III. Facing the Establishment
IV. Public Enemy
V. The Politics of Hope
Glossary
Index

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

Copyright ® 1990 by Paul Wilson

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. Pub lished simultaneously in Great Britain by Faber and Faber.

Published in Germany as Fernvehör by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg in 1987
Copyright ® 1987 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH,
Reinbek bei Hamburg
Dalkovy vyslech ® 1986 by Vaclav Havel
Published by arrangement with Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg
Published in Czech by Rozmluvy in 1986

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Unwin Hyman Ltd. for permission to reprint an excerpt from Charter 77 and Human Rights in Czechoslovakia
by H. Gordon Skilling. Reprinted by kind permission of
Unwin Hyman Ltd.
Portions of this work were originally published in
The Nem York Review of Books

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Havel, Vaclav, [Dalkový vyslech. English]
Disturbing the peace : a conversation with Karel Hvizdala / Vaclav Havel : translated from the Czech & with an introduction by Paul Wilson. - 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Translation of : Dalkovy vyslech.
ISBN 0-394-58441-4

Manufactured in the United States of America
First American Edition