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Memo from Václav Havel by Thomas Garvey

Lost in Havel's untranslatable idiom.Václav Havel, who died last year, was one of the few playwrights who can claim to have had a larger role on the political stage than the dramatic one.Both the final president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic, Havel, a long-time dissident and intellectual voice behind the Iron Curtain, was a major player in lifting that particular political shroud,…

SOURCE: The Hub Review at 05:17PM on January 23, 2013

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