Václav Havel Libri

OSANNA O CRUCIFIGE: sembra che, quando si parla di globalizzazione, non si riesca a sfuggire da questi opposti atteggiamenti. Opportunità infinite, crescita costante, emancipazione continua, da un lato, oppressione, degradazione, mercificazione, dall’altro. Perché? Che cosa ha di intrinsecamente buono o cattivo questo fenomeno tanto da dividere gli studiosi e i cittadini, da creare profeti di benessere e predicatori di sventure, da produrre speranze ottimistiche e contestazioni radicali? E che cosa ha di nuovo rispetto, ad esempio, ad alcuni suoi predecessori, come la rivoluzione scientifica, quella tecnologica, quella industriale? E se non è nuova, la globalizzazione, ma è una rinnovata sfida della conoscenza e del progresso, come affrontarla, affinché siamo noi, che consapevolmente o inintenzionalmente l’abbiamo creata e voluta, a goderne i maggiori benefici per il maggior numero di popoli e persone?Insomma: il mondo si allarga. Si allargano i commerci, i rapporti economici, le relazioni politiche, le integrazioni culturali, e, dietro a questo allargamento, i valori, i princìpi, i diritti, le aspirazioni, le visioni. Che cos’è che non va in questo processo? Che cosa c’è da correggere? Perché lo si dovrebbe fermare? Il mondo largo è da restringere o espandere ancora?Le lezioni sull’argomento tenute nella Sala Zuccari di Palazzo Giustiniani e qui raccolte in volume trattano esattamente queste questioni. Esse hanno autori di indiscusso prestigio: dal compianto Senatore Giovanni Agnelli a Henry Kissinger, da Václav Havel a Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, da Bill Gates a Bernard Lewis. A leggerle tutte assieme, si scopre che esse offrono un punto di vista prezioso e originale per la conoscenza del fenomeno, e ne forniscono una descrizione articolata e multidisciplinare, dall’economia alla politica alla cultura alla storia.

As writer, dissident, and statesman, Havel played an essential part in the changes that occurred in Central Europe during the last decades of the twentieth century, and became a powerful intellectual and political force for the reestablishment of democratic principles and institutions. Now, in this memoir, he recollects the pivotal experiences and ideas of his remarkable life. Known in his native Prague for his theatrical productions, and imprisoned for his anticommunist views, Havel emerged on the international stage in 1989 as the elected president of Czechoslovakia. He writes with eloquence and candor about his transition from playwright to politician, and the surreal challenges of governing a young democracy. But the scope of his writing extends far beyond the circumstances he faced in his own country. He shares his thoughts on the future of the EU, the reach of the American superpower, and the role of national identity in today's world.--From publisher description.

Gathers essays by the Czech playwright, and includes writings by other authors in his honor."

Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, "I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you." Some of the pieces in Open Letters, such as "Dear Dr. Husak" and the essay "The Power of the Powerless," are by now almost legendary for their influence on a generation of Eastern European dissidents; others, such as some of Havel's prison correspondence and his private letter to Alexander Dubcek, appear in English for the first time. All of them bear the unmistakable imprint of Havel's intellectual rigor, moral conviction, and unassuming eloquence, while standing as important additions to the world's literature of conscience.

Obrazová publikace sleduje spolupráci prezidenta Havla a jeho hradního architekta B. Šípka v letech 1992 - 2002 při úpravách Pražského hradu.

This collection of plays includes "The Garden Party", "The Memorandum", "The Increased Difficulty of Concentration" and "Mistake".

Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Václav Havel’s meditation on political dissent – the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it – would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy. 'Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra

Collects the conversations between the former president of the Czech Republic and the editor in chief of the largest daily newspaper in Poland, beginning in the 1970s and continuing as they lived through a tumultuous era in Central Europe.