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Václav Havel’s Prague: A Guide to Buildings and Places with a Role in the Life of the Playwright, Dissident and President

Václav Havel’s Prague: A Guide to Buildings and Places with a Role in the Life of the Playwright, Dissident and President
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Václav Havel’s Prague: A Guide to Buildings and Places with a Role in the Life of the Playwright, Dissident and President 9788087490921 0
Author Translator Publisher Language Pages Published Width Height
Zdeněk Lukeš Cóilín O'Connor, Ian Willoughby Knihovna Václava Havla, o.p.s. CZ 220 2018 13,20 cm 18,50 cm
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Written by a leading historian of Czech architecture, this guidebook, comprising several chapters accompanied by photographs by Pavel Hroch and others, presents works of Prague architecture bulit by Vaclav Havel’s grandfather and father, including the Lucerna and buildings in the district of Barrandov, as well as places connected with Havel’s childhood and youth, the period of his success as a dramatist, and his years as a dissident. While in the Offi ce of President, Havel himself initiated distinctive changes to the Castle precincts to give them a more welcoming appearance. The guidebook also includes places linked with the last years of his life.

The mosaic presented includes buildings with a variety of functions – from Havel’s favourite pubs, cafes, and theatres, flats of fellow dissidents, secret-police interrogation rooms, and a prison, all the way to changes he initiated in the architecture of the Castle. The seventy entries, presented here chronologically, are accompanied by biographical information about the particular periods of Havel’s life, as well as maps and brief biographical sketches of the architects.
The author, Zdeněk Lukeš, is a historian of architecture. He has organized exhibitions and published dozens of books on the subject and has been employed at Prague Castle for almost thirty years as an adviser on architecture.

Author Zdeněk Lukeš
Translator Cóilín O'Connor, Ian Willoughby
Publisher Knihovna Václava Havla, o.p.s.
Language CZ
Pages 220
Published 2018
Width 13,20 cm
Height 18,50 cm
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