Vaclav Havel: Dissident, Playwright, and Politician

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For Havel, life under communism represented "an inflated caricature of modern life in general" and the collective experiences of those who lived under such a totalitarian regime" stand as a kind of warning to the West, revealing to it its own latent tendencies." We will explore this hypothesis by studying Havel's texts and the cultural context where they arose.