The Václav Havel Library Notebooks
Since 2009, the unusual quarterly called “The Václav Havel Library Notebooks” has been issued. The Notebooks primarily aim to reflect, a little differently than is normally done, the personality of Václav Havel, the period in which he lived and his thoughts. Therefore, texts which are new or unknown to the public, having the potential to view Havel-type themes from unexpected angles, will be published in The Notebooks. The Notebooks are not strictly limited in genre: the texts may come from the field of philosophy, political science, sociology, as well as poetry – even student reflections are not excluded. Secondarily, The Notebooks summarize the activities of the Václav Havel Library for a given period.
VHL Notebooks 2010/2: Interviews with the 36ers and Silver Wind
The book is composed of works of the 36ers published in Samizdat magazines Interviews with the 36ers and Silver Wind. Among others, it contains Havel’s unknown texts from his earliest period, uncovered in the depths of Hrádeček.
The Vaclav Havel Library Notebooks 2010/1: Jiří Kuběna - Masks, Drawings and Paintings
The first volume of the second year of the Vaclav Havel Library Notebooks is a catalogue to the art exhibition of Jiří Kuběna bearing the same name.
Vaclav Havel Library Notebooks 2009/4 – M. C. Putna: Spirituality of Václav Havel
Spirituality of Václav Havel, the new study of Martin C. Putna, which searches for the sources of Havel’s philosophical texts, which almost no one have noticed yet.
Vaclav Havel Library Workbooks 2009/3 - L. Hejdánek: Havel is Carbon
Set of critical reflections on Havel’s intellectual work from the pen of a leading Czech philosopher. Many texts are published in a book for the very first time.
Vaclav Havel Library Notebooks 2009/2
The second issue of the Václav Havel Library Notebooks entitled “Instigation and Punishment” (“Podněcování a trest”) was published on 2nd June 2009. “Instigation and Punishment” is a unique and absurd text. It is the actual court trial record of Václav Havel from February 1989, converted into the form of a theatrical drama – “almost another play by Václav Havel”.
Václav Havel Library Notebooks 2009/1
The first issue of the Václav Havel Library Notebooks quarterly was published on 11th March 2009.
A Word about Words – samizdat essay
„Besides, to be wary of words and of the horrors that might slumber inconspicuously within them – isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual? I recall that André Glucksmann once spoke in Prague about the need for intellectuals to emulate Cassandra: to listen carefully to the words of the powerful, to be watchful of them, to forewarn them of their danger, and to proclaim their dire implications or the evil they might invoke.“
Václav Havel:
A Word about Words – samizdat essay
July 25, 1989
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