Volume 39, Number 15 · September 24, 1992
Keeping the Faith
By George F. Kennan
Summer Meditations
by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson
Knopf, 149 pp., $20.00
Václav Havel, the courageous leading dissident in the years of Communist control of Czechoslovakia, and more recently president of that country, needs no introduction to the readers of The New York Review. His name has appeared on the pages of the Review in a number of capacities. Known originally primarily as a play-wright, Havel has always been a prolific and engaging writer. His literary output in later years has taken exclusively the form of essays, letters, and published interviews; and after his release from prison in 1983, several volumes of English translations of such materials saw publication, prior to the appearance of the volume here under review. [1]
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