Preface: H.E. Halka Kaiserová, Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Romania
Introduction: Jiří Přibáň
Postface: interview with Gianina Cărbunariu by Mircea Dan Duță
Translation from Czech: Mircea Dan Duță and Gabriela Georgescu
This volume contains the fundamental philosophical essays, part of the Letters to Olga, and the most important political speeches of Václav Havel – playwright and philosopher, first president of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic restored to democracy after the fall of communism in Europe. Published just over a decade after the premature death of the intellectual and politician, a representative figure for the whole European space, it forms part of the “Ten years without Havel” programme coordinated by the Czech Foreign Ministry
Presenting: Mircea Dan Duță – specialist in Czech literature and film studies, diplomat, writer in Czech, translator of Czech, Slovak, Polish, English, and French literature, teacher in the Faculty of Social Science of Charles University in Prague.
Mircea Dan Duță is the author of volumes of poetry and short prose, together with numerous works in his areas of specialism (literary and film analysis and criticism, political developments in the history of Central European cinematography and dramaturgy, history of Central Europe and the Balkans), mostly published in Prague.