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Title: Power of the Powerless, The
Author: VACLAV HAVEL
Illustrator: SNYDER TIMOTHY (INTR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/12/2018
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
Vaclav Havel?s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window- Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer?s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Vaclav Havel?s meditation on political dissent – the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it – would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy.‘Havel?s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump’ Pankaj Mishra
ISBN: 9781784875046
Pages: 176
Edition: 01