Václav Havel - Jediný autorizovaný životopis - CDmp3 (Čte Jan Kačer, Daniela Kolářová)

Václav Havel knew the writer Edu Kriseová from the dissident movement. She experienced the most turbulent revolutionary weeks with him and initially became his advisor and then the director of the Complaints and Pardons Department at Prague Castle. What happened back then will never be repeated: thinkers, writers, and philosophers took power... Although without practical experience in governance, they had the purest intentions. The author deliberately wrote the life of a positive hero so that people would have an example, an idol, after the malaise in which they lived for forty years. To understand that it pays to be decent and to hold on to one's truth, and that life only makes sense when one lives it in their own integrity, and that it is worth sacrificing personal interest for the whole society. She also cleanses the reputation of the Czech national bourgeoisie, the family from which Václav came, and captures the memories of Havel's friends and contemporaries so that Václav Havel emerges from their memories as authentically and vividly as a person with his 'heights and depths.' Twenty-five years after the Velvet Revolution, we still lack these ideals and values, and we have perhaps sobered up too much from the initial enthusiasm. 'From Utopia to Reality' is therefore the title of the reflection or summary that the author added to this new edition. Compared to the first...