Václav Havel

Praise for The Power of the Powerless

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

The Economist