Disturbing the Peace - by Vaclav Havel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Although in many ways this book stands as an informal autobiography of the playwright turned statesman, these eloquent and often witty interviews do much more than just recapitulate how Vaclav Havel helped transform Czechoslovakia into a democracy. Havel gives insights into Czech history, the social and political roles of art, and a statement of the values underlying recent events in Eastern Europe. A national bestseller.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Václav Havel</b> was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. Among his plays, those best known in the West are <i>The Garden Party</i>, <i>The Memorandum</i>, <i>Largo Desolato, Temptation</i>, and three one-act plays, <i>Audience</i>, <i>Private View</i>, and <i>Protest</i>. 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, <i>Letters to Olga </i>(1981). In 1989 he helped to found the Civic Forum, the first legal opposition movement in Czechoslovakia in 40 years; in December 1989 he was elected president of Czechoslovakia; and in 1994 became the first president of the independent Czech Republic. His memoir, <i>To the Castle and Back</i>, was published in 2007. He died in 2011 at the age of 75.
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