Václav Havel was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. Among his plays, those best known in the West are
The Garden Party,
The Memorandum,
Largo Desolato, Temptation, and three one-act plays,
Audience,
Private View and
Protest. He is a founding spokesman of Charter 77 and the author of many influential essays on the nature of totalitarianism and dissent. In 1979 he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for his involvement in the human rights movement. Out of this imprisonment came his book of letters to his wife,
Letters to Olga (1981). In November 1989 he helped to found the Civic Forum, the first legal opposition movement in Czechoslovakia in forty years; in December 1989 he was elected President of Czechoslovakia; and in 1994 became the first President of the independent Czech Republic. His memoir,
To the Castle and Back, was published in 2007.
A pesar de sufrir personalmente las consecuencias del odio en su país, Václav Havel se aproxima a él como intelectual y como observador inquieto, examinando el deseo de absoluto que esconde esta pasión como odio personal y también como odio colectivo. En el segundo capítulo trata...
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