Havel creator

Havel creator «velvet revolution» President of the rule of a philosopher and as if in a theaterWrote plays and stripped the power of her clothes to reveal plots and traps »
Tahir Hamzawy
The life of Czech President Vaclav Havel, which was the last chapters last Sunday, like a theatrical play. These plays do not forget, such as »Waiting for Godot» to Beckett and »King Lear» Shakespeare.

  And his career deserves to be a station for reflection, the man did not like the rest of the heads of the world. Thus, when his departure does not know why the Czechs are placed in it: the president, or playwright. He also said his famous writer Milan Kundera's something to the effect that he was the president who runs the government hands velvet.The end of man as a complication of pneumonia is not treated him properly in prison. Havel spent five years in communist prisons before the year 1989.Recently, Havel said in an interview that his illness was accompanied with various complications such as «loss of balance, poor memory».Saturday and met with Havel in Prague, the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans living in exile before returning to his country home.Havel received the Franz Kafka Prize, which brought this writer to the literary arena after it was abandoned a few years went to work the political head of the Republic of Czechoslovakia and then to the Czech Republic, after separation, which make the two-state, and he was at the forefront of objecting to it.In 1989, occupied this author, who was a renegade Albolshafa the days of the presidential seat, moving from a layer of activists and protesters to the rank of the first power, and lights the darkness of the prison to democratic governance.In 2003 he left the presidency, having achieved the hopes of the few people aspire to it, the people who lived off the grip of the oscillation between Moscow and the illusion of «dream» and the fact that membership in the American Union. Throughout the years the role of president Havel led «intellectual actor» as described, has succeeded in fully integrating the personal and intellectual dissident opposition, and the character of President or «governor».Perhaps he was able to embody the idea of ​​combining culture and power, between the margin and governance, in the most beautiful pictures of this old idea and thorny, say observers.Kafka Prize may be an incentive to restore the avant-garde playwright Havel, then began to split from the absurdity of this trend, founded by Samuel Beckett, to make the private theater that he wanted a mix of absurdity and existential rebellion and protest and commitment ... And although he broke with his mentor, the first Beckett, the owner «Godot» Antn not donate for one of its provisions, entitled «catastrophe».This was the most beautiful tribute brought to the author of a leading writer was regarded himself as a pupil. The fellow novelist Milan Kundera insists it was a description of the life of the dissident who was not afraid at all the faces Albolshafa remained under the roof, to «work of art», and as such is really the essence of the experience that fought Havel, making it the material inspired theatrical and literary. It was a personal experience and collective at the same time, the individual experience of the oppressed and the group that dream to «spring» Last post «Prague Spring» famous.Havel published his book «Letters to Olga». This book, which includes the most beautiful can write messages of love in 2007, four years after leaving the presidency, Havel wrote a play entitled «Departure». As the title indicates the play revolves around «abandoned» power. This theme was reflected in Shakespeare's «King Lear» and Chekhov's play «The Cherry Orchard». However, Havel made his play this comic and absurd and sarcastic bitterness, and was baptized in which to expose the mechanism of «oppression» and plots hatched in secret and in public, and «traps», which erected the rhythm with «the other» and illusions of the market economy and ethics negative. Not prejudice the character of this play CV, with the Havel did not specify the name of the country where «conspiracy», and to see Havel himself to the world of policy track record of corruption and lies, hypocrisy and greed ... When presented the play in the Czech Republic and other countries met with popular success and the return of Havel devoted to the theater. This play seemed like a draw a dividing line between the past and the future of the unknown Havel as a playwright, and also seemed like a greeting and a farewell to the past and its symbols.In 2006, Havel spent eight weeks in the United States, during which he lectured at Columbia University, and participated in a public debate with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. But Havel, shortly after returning from the United States, published texts is like a diary or notes, attached to an interview was conducted with Carl Hgyazdala download book title «the truth».These texts shed light shining on the path to Havel, playwright and intellectual, political, and reflect the craftsmanship in the writing of such texts, which penetrates the edge of species and schools.Havel began its course in technical theater amateur band, in 1960. He continued at the same time evening classes, in secret, after the Communist regime prevented him from pursuing his education because of the assets of the bourgeois family. And provided the first play of the author (outdoor ceremony) in 1963 and led the championship with his wife Olga, which has been trained by a fellow, over forty years of dictatorship cells to the presidential palace.Addition to his writing the play and press the anti-shed, Havel worked, throughout the sixties, a laborer in a factory of beer in Prague, which authorized him to be a trade union leaders, which led the revolution «Prague Spring», 1968. And after the intervention of Soviet tanks to crush the revolution, was the mantra: «tanks that can grind the flowers, but they can not cancel the spring». Ahaad and continued after the revolution in the struggle for freedom.In 1977, was imprisoned following his contribution in the liberation of «Charter 77» demands freedom. In prison, A book of reference «power of the powerless» (1978), which was considered revolutionary peaceful popular, making the name Havel turns into an icon to the struggles of the peoples of Eastern Europe for liberation, which gave him Beckett's play «disaster», 1982. Milan Kundera described the course of struggle that «like an epic technical panel».Despite the fact that Havel was in prison, when it exploded «Silk Revolution», 1989, the book in question was the main reference for the student uprising that toppled Communist rule. Thus, it was natural to turn «youth revolution» to Havel for his nomination as the first president of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic, which obtained its independence from the Soviet bloc. Havel did not impair the performance of political cynicism, which is famous for his plays. What that ruled until appointed ambassador to Moscow, I'm the leader of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, Rudolf Slanski, Stalin, who was hanged in 1952, something which was considered an unprecedented challenge to the power of «big brother» Russian Federation.Havel work to establish a pluralistic and democratic system in his country emerging from a half century of domination. But the winds of nationalist quickly engulfed Eastern Europe. In spite of his opposition to the pro-currents of ethnic separation between Czechs and Slovaks, but that «the philosopher President», as it was nicknamed, was keen to distance his country from ethnic conflicts that tore apart most of the republics of Eastern Europe. And laid down an example of a cultural change in a peaceful, even when it comes to secession. Sued a popular referendum led to the birth of the Czech Republic and Slovakia without bloodshed.After separation, was nominated again for the presidency in the Czech Republic. And continued his efforts to establish democratic transformation that began in the Federal Republic. Having finished his second term, retired from power in 2003, to succeed Vaclav Clauz.