There is no shortage of politicians who make a habit of shooting from the hip, but it is much rarer to find one who speaks from the heart. Václav Havel knows no other way to speak, or to write. Both as a dissident and as a playwright it was his sworn purpose for many years to combat evil with nothing but truth. As president of Czechoslovakia, and now of the Czech Republic, he has clung to that habit, refusing to turn over either his conscience or his voice to political handlers and professional speechwriters. Instead he assumes the additional burden--for him, it is a distinct pleasure--of composing all of his oratory. Audiences from New York to New Delhi, Oslo to Tokyo, have been the luckier for his decision.
This volume consists of thirty-five of these essays, written between the years 1990 and 1996, that manage to be both profoundly personal and profoundly political. Havel writes of totalitarianism, its miseries and the nonetheless difficult emergence from it.
He describes how his country and the other postcommunist countries are learning democracy from scratch and are encountering obstacles from inside and out. He marvels at the single technology-driven civilization that envelops the globe, and the challenges this presents to multicultural realities. He invokes the duty of every person alive to prevent hatred and fear from derailing history ever again. He acknowledges "the advantage it is for doing a good job as president to know that I do not belong in the position and that I can at any moment, and justifiably, be removed from it."And he reminds us that--contrary to all appearances--common sense, moderation, responsibility, good taste, feeling, instinct, and conscience are not alien to politics, but are the very key to its long-term success.
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评分这是一部令人沉思的心理悬疑杰作,它的叙事结构就像一个精妙的万花筒,你以为你看到了全部,但下一秒,视角一转,一切都变得面目全非。主角是一个患有严重失忆症的侦探,他被卷入一桩多年前的连环谋杀案中,而所有证据都指向了他自己,但他却完全没有记忆。作者对“记忆不可靠性”的描绘达到了一个近乎病态的真实感,读者的代入感极强,我们跟着主角一起在迷雾中摸索,每一个发现都可能是伪装,每一个盟友都可能是潜藏的敌人。书中的对话充满了机锋和暗示,每一句看似随意的交谈背后都可能隐藏着关键的线索,我常常需要停下来,翻阅前面的章节,重新梳理人物之间的复杂关系网。最让我拍案叫绝的是高潮部分的布局,真相的揭露不是一个简单的“凶手是谁”的答案,而是一个关于人性黑暗面、社会结构腐败以及自我认知崩塌的宏大叙事。它迫使读者去质疑我们对“现实”的基本假设,读完之后,我感觉自己对身边发生的一切都需要重新审视一遍。这部作品的文字功底扎实得惊人,冷峻、克制,却又在关键时刻爆发出雷霆万钧的情感力量。
评分Yes, he did insist his beliefs after he became the president and he demonstrated them in his political actions. It is such a comfort.
评分Yes, he did insist his beliefs after he became the president and he demonstrated them in his political actions. It is such a comfort.
评分Yes, he did insist his beliefs after he became the president and he demonstrated them in his political actions. It is such a comfort.
评分Yes, he did insist his beliefs after he became the president and he demonstrated them in his political actions. It is such a comfort.
评分Yes, he did insist his beliefs after he became the president and he demonstrated them in his political actions. It is such a comfort.
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