January 2012
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Course description
LT208 The Writings of Václav Havel: Critique of Modern Society
David S. Danaher, Professor, Slavic Languages, UW-Madison
Course Objectives
This course is a literature-in-translation course in two senses of the term “translation”. In one sense of the term, we will be reading — and critically evaluating from a literary perspective — Havel’s works in English translation. ...
Havel links
havel’s biography, résumé, and other information
havel’s official website (with speeches)
website of the president’s office in prague castle
wikipedia on havel
havel wikiquote
václav havel library
charter 77 after thirty years
speeches and other texts
speeches in english
video of havel’s 1990 speech to a joint session of congress
a sense of the transcendental 1995
speech to nato...
Reactions 2011
Student Reactions to Havel’s Writing: Spring 2011
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Reactions 2009
Student Reactions to Havel’s Writing: Fall 2009
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Anatomy of the Gag
“I was actually pretty happy with the way Havel did ‘Anatomy of the Gag’. At...
Reactions 2008
Student Reactions to Havel’s Writing: Fall 2008
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Anti-kódy
“I would like to react to the anti-code in which the man is separated from his head (the...
Reactions 2007
Student Reactions to Havel’s Writing: Fall 2007
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An Online Reaction Journal
> The Havelian...
Reactions 2006
Student Reactions to Havel’s Writing: Fall 2006
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Anti-kódy: Reactions
“I’ve read a number of anticode-esque poems in my life. My favorite poet...
Reactions 2004
Student Reactions to Havel’s Writing: Fall 2004
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Explaining and Understanding
“After talking in class today about the explaining vs. understanding...
Reactions 2002
Student Reactions to Havel’s Writing: Fall 2002
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On Dubcek
“In VH’s ‘Letter to Alexander Dubcek,’ he writes of the moral dilemma the...
