Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace


A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala

Translation from Czech and with an Introduction by Paul Wilson

Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc. New York

 

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


FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, APRIL 1991
Copyright ® 1990 by Paul Wilson

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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
First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1990.

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. Copyright © 1981 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

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Havel, Vaclav [Dalkovy vyslech. English]
Disturbing the peace: a conversation with Karel Hvizdala/Vaclav Havel; translated from the Czech and with an introduction by Paul Wilson.- 1st Vintage Books ed.
p. cm.

Translation of: Dalkovy vyslech.
ISBN 0-679-73402-3 (pbk.)
Manufactured in the United States of America