Václav Havel: a major dramatist as well as a major politician, by Michael Billington (Guardian)
Havel will be remembered as a courageous world leader – but we shouldn't forget his subversive satires of Czech communist life.
New Albany is a state of mind … but whose? Since 2004, we’ve been observing the contemporary scene in this slowly awakening old river town. If it’s true that a pre-digital stopped clock is right twice a day, when will New Albany learn to tell time?
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Havel: "A major dramatist as well as a major politician."
It's interesting that Billington mentions the friendship of Havel with playwright Tom Stoppard without adding that Stoppard was born in Zlín, the Czech factory town of Bata shoes, and while a small boy, escaped with his family at the last possible moment before the Nazi occupation.
I thought the same thing: floating in the ether above is Stoppard's stepfather - I made you British.
ReplyDelete