Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump
Pankaj Mishra
Few voices did more to undermine the foundations of the Berlin Wall and the entire edifice of Soviet-imposed totalitarianism than this shy bourgeois, this sly, reticent, playwright and essayist
David Remnick, New Yorker
In gentle, ironic but scathing prose, Havel's The Power of the Powerless exposed the lies and cowardice that made possible the communist grip on power
The Economist
Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump
Pankaj Mishra
Few voices did more to undermine the foundations of the Berlin Wall and the entire edifice of Soviet-imposed totalitarianism than this shy bourgeois, this sly, reticent, playwright and essayist
David Remnick, New Yorker
In gentle, ironic but scathing prose, Havel's The Power of the Powerless exposed the lies and cowardice that made possible the communist grip on power
The Economist
Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump
Pankaj Mishra
Few voices did more to undermine the foundations of the Berlin Wall and the entire edifice of Soviet-imposed totalitarianism than this shy bourgeois, this sly, reticent, playwright and essayist
David Remnick, New Yorker
In gentle, ironic but scathing prose, Havel's The Power of the Powerless exposed the lies and cowardice that made possible the communist grip on power