Literature and Tolerance
Havel, Vaclav / Capek, Karel / Klima, Ivan
In the face of Europe's rising nationalism and intolerance, this timely anthology by Czech writers addresses a key issue for today. The courage of Czech writers is legendary. During the Cold War they kept their nation's conscience alive by clandestine publishing while imprisoned as "dissidents" or collecting garbage, washing windows or selling fish as "non-persons, " and then they took the lead in the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrew c...