Letters to Olga (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Václav Havel
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: June 4, 1979-September 4, 1982
- Setting: Czechoslovakia
- Principal Characters: Václav Havel, Olga Havel, Ivan Havel, Kveta Havel, Jiri Nemec, Emmanuel Levinas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Wives, Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Prisoners, Human rights, Lifestyles, Existentialism, Drama or dramatists, Thought or thinking
Form and Content
On May 29, 1979, Czechoslovakia’s State Security police jailed ten members of the Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted, known by its Czech acronym of VONS. Havel was one of those arrested. VONS had been organized to monitor the cases of persons imprisoned for expressing their beliefs or people otherwise victimized by the police and the court system. The arrest was Havel’s fourth. In January, 1977, he had been imprisoned for five months because of his membership in Charter 77, the Czechoslovak human rights movement. In October, 1977, he had...
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