Reading Václav Havel

As a playwright, a dissident, and a politician, Václav Havel was one of the most important intellectual figures of the late twentieth century. Working in an extraordinary range of genres - poetry, plays, public letters, philosophical essays, and political speeches - he left behind a range of texts so diverse that scholars have had difficulty grappling with his oeuvre as a whole.

In Reading Václav Havel, David S. Danaher approaches Havel's remarkable body of work holistically, focusing on the language, images, and ideas which appear and reappear in the many genres in which Havel wrote. Carefully reading the original Czech texts alongside their English versions, he exposes what in Havel's thought has been lost in translation. A passionate argument for Havel's continuing relevance, Reading Václav Havel is the first book to capture the fundamental unity of his vast literary legacy.

Author: David S. Danaher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 04/14/2015
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781442649927

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2015

About the Author
Danaher, David S.: - David S. Danaher is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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