by Vaclav Havel · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499156663
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«Largo Desolato» is the play by Václav Havel, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch in paperback (100 pages, in German).
The first work Havel wrote after leaving prison in 1983. It portrays a dissident intellectual harassed by a totalitarian regime and by his own doubts. It blends the absurd and the political: his paradoxical characters, both victims and creators, want to do good but end up making everything worse.
Subtitled «Schauspiel in sieben Bildern», it belongs to the rororo Taschenbücher series (no. 15666), with a foreword by Siegfried Lenz and translation by Joachim Bruss. Third edition.
For readers interested in contemporary drama, Central European literature and Czech political dissent.
Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays and memoirs.
