Vaclav Havel: Une vie
- ISBN-10
- 2283027705
- ISBN-13
- 9782283027707
- Series
- Václav Havel
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 736
- Language
- French
- Published
- 2014-11-06
- Publisher
- Buchet/Chastel
- Author
- Michael Zantovsky
Description
Faire la biographie de Václav Havel est chose complexe, car il s’agit de tracer le portrait tout à la fois de l’iconoclaste, de l’intellectuel, de l’artiste auteur dramatique, du leader politique, du dernier président de Tchécoslovaquie, du premier président de la République tchèque. Il y a l’enfance heureuse de Havel à Prague, ses origines familiales bourgeoises, ses premières pièces. Puis il y a Havel le dissident qui participe activement au printemps de Prague, celui de la Charte 77, qui passe cinq ans de sa vie dans les geôles communistes au début des années 1980, celui qui conduit dans la paix la Révolution de velours en 1989. Enfin il y a le président, quatorze années durant. Václav Havel est l’un des hommes politiques les plus fascinants du dernier siècle. Il a joué un rôle décisif dans l’enterrement d’une des utopies les plus séduisantes, et les plus meurtrières, de tous les temps, et a mis en œuvre l’une des métamorphoses majeures de l’époque récente. Michael Žantovský, ancien porte-parole de Havel et ami de dissidence depuis la fin des années 1970, fut un témoin privilégié de toutes ces années. L’ouvrage qu’il nous livre ici est tout autant le portrait d’un homme qu’un document historique majeur pour la compréhension d’une époque pas si lointaine qu’il y paraît. Homme de lettres, spécialiste de psychologie sociale, Michael Žantovský (né en 1949) est ambassadeur de la République tchèque au Royaume-Uni. Il a contribué, dès les années 1970, à la presse d’opposition au régime communiste de Tchécoslovaquie. Au côté de Václav Havel, il a pris des responsabilités politiques puis diplomatiques. De 1992 à 1997, il a été l’ambassadeur de la République tchèque aux États-Unis, puis de 2003 à 2009 en Israël. Il a également traduit de nombreux auteurs anglais et américains vers le tchèque (Norman Mailer, Nadine Gordimer ou Toni Morrison).
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- 2004-08-19
- 192 pages
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- 2004
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