Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace

A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala

Translation from Czech and with an Introduction by Paul Wilson

 

Faber and Faber London Boston

 

Contents

Preface
Introduction
Growing Up "Outside"
Writing for the Stage
Facing the Establishment
Public Enemy
The Politics of Hope
Glossary
Index

First published in the USA in 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto
First published in Great Britain in 1990 by Faber and faber Limited 3 Queen Square London WCIN 3AU

Published in Germany as Fernverhör 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 acknowledgement 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 New York Review of Books

Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
All rights reserved

® Vaclav Havel, 1990

Translation © Paul Wilson, 1990

A CIP record of this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0-571-16200-2