The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vaclav Havel
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: A flat in Czechoslovakia
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Values, Twentieth century, Marriage, Adultery, Ethics, Technology, Computers, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
- Locales: Czechoslovakia
Characters Discussed
Dr. Eduard Huml, a social scientist in his mid-forties working on a book about the nature of human happiness. At the same time, he is maintaining a reasonably successful marriage, keeping a mistress, unsuccessfully fighting a physical attraction to his secretary, and submitting to an exhaustive set of examinations from a team of investigative social scientists who have invaded his house and are using him as a model of individuality, measured against computerized norms.
Vlasta Huml, his wife, domestic and supportive, a good cook, and eager to please...
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