Books

Record of a quartet of debates form the conference Europe and the Czech Republic 2113, which the Václav Havel Library organised in cooperation with Ace Academy at the American Center in Prague in May 2013.

Anthology from the conference The Garden Party 1963–2013, featuring contributions from leading experts on Václav Havel’s drama.

A collection of prose by four prominent Roma authors.

The second volume of the printed edition of transcripts of President Václav Havel’s legendary radio programme.

A collection of eight personally toned speeches by Václav Havel from 1990–1995.

A collection of selected speeches given by Václav Havel serves as a summary of his contribution about the purpose of European integration.

A unique detailed monograph of one of the greatest Czechs of the 20th century written by his close collaborator and friend.

Příběh Edice Expedice (The Story of Dispatch Editions) introduces readers in highly accessible but also faithfully researched form to the “life” of one of the most important samizdat publishers in the then Czechoslovakia, the gestation of which involved Václav Havel. The first part of the book, supplemented with a great number of documentary photographs, describes not only the production of the books and their domestic and international distribution but also the persecution that the creators and readers of the Dispatch Editions faced in the normalisation period.

Prostřednictvím kočky (By Means of a Cat) is a collection of the earliest literary texts by one of the key figures in the New Wave of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960s (Joseph Killian, Case for a Rookie Hangman), known to the general public above all for his engrossing diary, Deník 1959–1974 (Diary 1959–1974), which was Book of the Year in the newspaper Lidové noviny in 2004.

Události / faksimile rukopisného sešitu (Events / A facsimile of a handwritten notebook) is a unique reproduction of a letter-collage-sneer by one of the best known “outsiders” of Czech literature, who – thanks to his unpretentious conception of art – had a significant influence on many writers in the second half of the 20th century.

The only text by Václav Havel dedicated to children. Czech-English edition.

Síla věcnosti Olgy Havlové (Olga Havlová’s Power of Pragmatism) is a collection of reminiscences and interviews published to mark what would have been Olga Havlová’s 80th birthday.

Příležitostný portrét Václava Havla (An Occasional Portrait of Václav Havel) is a collection of reviews, interviews and essays by leading Czech journalists, experts, politicians and friends of Václav Havel’s.

New and complemented collection of Václav Havel´s graphic poems.

The first part of the book edition of the legendary radio show Hovory v Lány.

Collection of pieces by authors from the Kampademie circle dedicated to Radim Palouš on his 70th birthday.

Censurováno (Censored), the 15th VHL Notebook, contains a series of letters written by Zdeněk Neubauer, undoubtedly one of the most distinctive and original of Czech contemporary thinkers, to his brother-in-law Václav Benda in prison between 1980 and 1983.

A personal story of remembrance, Czechoslovakia and war, 1937 – 1948.