A Czech on Power

THOSE WHO don’t like Vaclav Havel can point out that he is a follower of Patocka, who was a follower of Heidegger, who was a fascist. The Nation, on the other hand, hails Havel as a gender-and-race-conscious member of the Sixties counterculture. Either opinion could be held only by people who haven’t read anything by him.

Living in Truth, by Vaclav Havel et al., edited by Jan Vladislav (Faber & Faber, 315 pp., $28.95)

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Martin Weiss

THOSE WHO don’t like Vaclav Havel can point out that he is a follower of Patocka, who was a follower of Heidegger, who was a fascist. The Nation, on the other hand, hails Havel as a gender-and-race-conscious member of the Sixties counterculture. Either opinion could be held only by people who haven’t read anything by him.

Living in Truth, by Vaclav Havel et al., edited by Jan Vladislav (Faber & Faber, 315 pp., $28.95)