The Garden Party (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vaclav Havel
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: Czechoslovakia
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Parody
- Subjects: Language or languages, 1960’s, Communication, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
- Locales: Czechoslovakia
Characters Discussed
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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