Open Letters Selected Writings 1965 - 1990 Selected and Edited by Paul Wilson   Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc. New York

Contents

Preface and translations copyright ® 1985, 1988, 1991 by Paul Wilson
"On the Theme of an Opposition";Letter to Alexander Dubcek
"Farce, Reformability, and the Future of the World"; copyright © 1991 by A.G. Brain

Czech originals copyright by Vaclav Havel

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Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1991 and simultaneously in Great Britain by
Faber & Faber, Limited, London.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to publish these previous English translations:
"Thinking About Frantisek K.;' "Testing Ground; and "A Word About Words; copyright © 1988, 1989, 1990 by A.G. Brain.
"Six Asides About Culture" and "Anatomy of a Reticence; copyright ® 1985 by Erazim Kohak.
"Politics and Conscience; copyright ® 1985 by Erazim Kohak and Roger Scruton.
"`I Take the Side of Truth': An Interview with Antoine Spire" and "Meeting Gorbachev; copyright © 1983, 1988
by George Theiner.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Havel, Vaclav. Open letters: selected writings, 1965-1990 by Vaclav Havel;
selected and edited by Paul Wilson.
p. cm.
Translated from the Czech.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-679-73811-8 (pbk.)
Author photograph ©Milos Fikejz

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