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To the Castle and Back: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero by Havel, Václav; Hvízdala, Karel, 1941-; Wilson, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1941- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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An astonishingly candid memoir from the acclaimed, dissident playwright elected President after the dramatic Czechoslovakian Velvet Revolution one of the most respected political figures of our time. As writer and statesman, Vclav Havel played an essential part in the profound changes that occurred in Central Europe in the last decades of the twentieth century. In this most intimate memoir, he writes about his transition from outspoken dissident and political prisoner to a player on the international stage in 1989 as newly elected president of Czechoslovakia after the ousting of the Soviet Union, and, in l993, as president of the newly formed Czech Republic. Havel gives full rein to his impassioned stance against the devastation wrought by communism, but the scope of his concern in this engrossing memoir extends far beyond the circumstances he faced in his own country. The book is full of anecdotes of his interactions with world figures: offering a peace pipe to Mikhail Gorbachev, meditating with the Dali Lama, confessing to Pope John Paul II and partying with Bill and Hilary Clinton. Havel shares his thoughts on the future of the European Union and the role of national identity i

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Author

Havel, Václav; Hvízdala, Karel, 1941-; Wilson, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1941-

Publisher

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307266415

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Philosophy

Rating

3.95 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14