The Garden Party

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The Garden Party (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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Hugo Pludek, an amateur chess player and, later, liquidator of the Liquidation Office and Inauguration Service. Young, commanding, and insightful, Hugo attends the garden party of the Liquidation Office looking for a career; his penetration of the bureaucratic paranoia allows him to move up quickly in politics, treating his confrontations as moves in a chess game.

Maxy Falk, the Inaugurator of Parties, Conferences, and Celebrations. A young man with a sense of humor, he is trying to reform the dogmatic institution of the Inauguration Service. He...

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See Also:

• Václav Havel (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Václav Havel (Drama)
• Václav Havel (Censorship)