Books

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

A collection of selected speeches by Václav Havel from the years 1993–1997, i.e. from the time of building the newly established independent Czech Republic.

Moc bezmocných a jiné eseje (The Power of the Powerless and Other Essays) is an anthology comprising key essays by Václav Havel.

A collection of texts by Filip Topol about his legendary and mysterious "friend" Kilián Nedory, which have mostly not yet been published. The first part of the book consists of the short story The Pit and the Wind, the second part is a convolute of features, song lyrics, poems and prose. The book is published as the first volume of the intended three-volume edition of the Filip Topol Archive.

In the Case for a Novice Headsman Pavel Juráček approaches, examines and experiences one of the most intense, most urgent feelings of modern times - anxiety.

The satirical comedy The Garden Party is one of the first absurd plays in the Czech Republic, and in the 1960s it was Václav Havel's first theatrical play performed at the legendary Na Zábradlí Theater.

This volume of the edition "VH´s plays into pocket" includes one act plays Audience and Vernissage, which are centered around Václav Havel´s most successful character Vaněk, a banned writer. Timid, yet principled hero does not want to subordinate to the dictate of the police state nor to fail his beliefs and tries to live according to his conscience.

Interview with Karel Hvížďala, notes, documents.

Memories of one of the key figures of the Roma minority group in the Czech Republic.

Selection of interviews with Václav Havel with journalists from all over the world from 1964 and 1989.

Collected publication of Václav Havel’s “film” texts, prepared by Professor Jan Bernard of FAMU

The first part of the memories of one of the key figures of the Roma minority in the Czech Republic in Romani translation.

The second part of the memories of one of the key figures of the Roma minority in the Czech Republic in Romani translation.

The third and last part of the memories of one of the key figures of the Roma minority in the Czech Republic in Romani translation.

Written by a leading historian of Czech architecture, this guidebook, comprising several chapters accompanied by photographs by Pavel Hroch and others, presents works of Prague architecture bulit by Vaclav Havel’s grandfather and father, including the Lucerna and buildings in the district of Barrandov, as well as places connected with Havel’s childhood and youth, the period of his success as a dramatist, and his years as a dissident. 

A selection of texts from a conference organized by the Václav Havel Library and Charter 77 Foundation at the occassion of 40th anniversary of the Charter 77 creation.

The first and at the same time the last prose of the screenwriter of the film "Je třeba zabít Sekala"

The first volume of a monumental diary work by a significant Czech film director.

The first volume of a monumental diary work by a significant Czech film director.

Similar but yet so different. In some respects Ivan M. Havel, the younger brother of former president Václav Havel...

An anthology of the journalism of Pavel Juráček – one of the key figures in the 1960s New Wave of Czech film.

Speeches, newspaper articles and interviews in 1994.

Correspondence between Václav Havel and Aleš Fetters after Havel's critical speech at a conference of the Union of Czechoslovak Writers in June 1965.

Václav Havel's well known essay, written in 1978, was a description of resistance to totalitarianism.

A photographic mosaic of snapshots from the life of Václav Havel.

Unique edition of a 1977 handwritten diary by Václav Havel.

Chilling philosophical grotesque about cat rental and byrocracy, from which there is no escape.

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

A captivating, existential drama, hemmed in a gold mining scenery of the far north.

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.

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.

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.