* 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
March 22, 2011
Development and Crimes of Pan-Slavism, essay written by Václav Černý who with extraordinary insight devotes to the myth of so-called Slavic unity, was sent to the printing house today.
This book, published as the Václav Havel Library Notebook No. 2/2011, should be available in our e-shop and in bookshops at the turn of March and April.
„It’s as though I were constantly expecting someone to visit. But who? A strange and beautiful woman who admires me?… I have only one explanation: I’m constantly preparing for the last judgment, for the highest court from which nothing can be hidden… I’m obviously assuming that the supreme judge is a stickler like me.“
Václav Havel:
Diary entry for 5 December 2005, To the Castle and Back, 2006
