* 5. 10. 1936 Prague ✝ 18. 12. 2011 Hradecek
Writer and Dramatist; One of the first Spokesmen for Charter 77; Leading Figure of the Velvet Revolution of 1989; Last President of Czechoslovakia; and First President of the Czech Republic
Collection of texts from 1986 in which members of Kampademie association reacted to Havel's play Temptation. The book includes works of Ivan M. Havel, Radim Palouš, Martin Palouš, Daniel Kroupa, Pavel Bratinka, Helena Webrová and Zdeněk Neubauer. It is accompanied with contemporary transcription of interview Kampademics led with Václav Havel. Till now, it has been published only in Samizdat series Expedice.
„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
