Disturbing the Peace (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Vaclav Havel
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1936-1985
- Setting: Czechoslovakia
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Communism or communists, Prisons, Writing, Heroes or heroism, Avant-garde, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: Czechoslovakia
The genre of Disturbing the Peace is both traditional and unique. The book must be considered an autobiography. Throughout, the focus is on Havel as a person: his biography—childhood, milieu, development, schools, influences, career as playwright—as well as his ideas and beliefs. The method of composition is original; the book was recorded rather than written, but the question-and-answer structure is not really that of an interview. The writer Karel Hvizdala, who lived in West Germany, sent a batch of about fifty questions to Havel, who was living in Prague. Havel shut...
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