Vaclav Havel
Basics
Vaclav Havel: from "Bourgeois Reactionary" to President. David Vaughan, Prague Radio Online (8/25/03).
Vaclav Havel (1936-). Pegasos (1999).
On the Web: Articles
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World. Excerpts from speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia (7/4/99).
Interpreting Vaclav Havel. Walter H. Capp, Cross Currents (fall 97)
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Goetz-Stankiewicz, Marketa & Phyllis Carey (eds.) Critical Essays on Václav Havel (NY: G.K. Hall, 1999).
Havel, Václav & others. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central-Eastern Europe (ed. John Keane; Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1985).
__________. Letters to Olga, June 1979-September 1982 (trans. Paul Wilson; London: Faber, 1988).
__________. Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala (trans. Paul Wilson; NY: Vintage, 1991).
__________. Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1992 (NY: Vintage, 1992).
__________. Summer Meditations (trans. Paul Wilson; NY: Vintage, 1993).
__________. Toward a Civil Society: Selected Speeches & Writings, 1990-1994 (ed. & trans. Paul Wilson & others; Prague: Lidové Noviny, 1994).
__________. The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality. Speeches & Writings, 1990-1996 (NY: Knopf, 1997).
Keane, John. Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts (London: Bloomsbury, 1999).
Kreiseová, Eda. Václav Havel: The Authorized Biography (trans. Caleb Crain; NY: St. Martin's, 1993).
McRae, Rob. Resistance & Revolution: Václav Havel's Czechoslovakia (Ottawa: Carleton U., 1999).
Simmons, Michael. The Reluctant President: A Political Biography of Václav Havel (London: Methuen, 1991).
Sire, James W. Václav Havel: The Intellectual Conscience of International Politics: An Introduction, Appreciation & Critique (Downer's Grove IL: InterVarsity, 2001).
Symynkywicz, Jeffrey. Václav Havel & the Velvet Revolution (?: Dillon, 1995).
Vladislav, Jan (eds.) Václav Havel: Living in Truth (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1989).
Whipple, Tim D. After the Velvet Revolution: Václav Havel & the New Leaders of Czechoslovakia Speak Out (NY: Freedom House, 1991).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
Havel, Václav. The Memorandum (NY: Grove, 1967).
__________. The Garden Party (trans. Vera Blackwell: London: Cape, 1969).
__________. Three East European Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970). Incl. The Memorandum.
__________. The Increased Difficulty of Concentration: A Play in Two Acts (NY: Samuel French, 1976).
__________. Private View: A Play (NY: Samuel French, 1978).
__________. Largo Desolato: A Play in Seven Scenes (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1987).
__________. Temptation (trans. George Theiner; London: Faber, 1988).
__________. Redevelopment, or Slum Clearance (London: Faber & Faber, 1990).
__________. Selected Plays: 1963-1983 (London: Faber & Faber, 1991).
__________. The Garden Party & Other Plays (NY: Grove, 1993).
__________. Selected Plays: 1984-1987 (London: Faber & Faber, 199?).
__________. The Beggar's Opera (trans. Paul Wilson; Ithaca: Cornell, 2001).