Vaclav Havel

Describes Havel's political baptism, when he addressed a congress of the writers' union in the early sixties and attacked their values, his career as a playwright, &, after the Prague Spring is crushed in 1968 by Soviet tanks and his writing is banned, and his emergence as a dissident. His role in Charter 77, the years in prison, the years out of prison but under house arrest, constantly harassed, are an eye-opening look at what it was like under communism in Czechoslovakia . The days of the Velvet Revolution and those that led to it are vividly depicted -- we share in the euphoria Czechoslovakia felt as it became a free country again.Kriseova, Eda is the author of 'Vaclav Havel' with ISBN 9780312103170 and ISBN 0312103174.