Paperback edition of the intimate, final memoirs from the great playwright and dissident-turned-politician, who along with Walesa and Gorbachev, will always be an icon of the bloodless collapse of Soviet Bloc communism.

VACLAV HAVEL was born in Czechoslovakia in 1936. His plays have been produced around the world, and he is the author of many influential essays and speeches on totalitarianism, dissent and democratic renewal. He was a founding spokesman for Charter 77, and served as president of the Czech Republic until 2003. He lives in Prague.