Vaclav Havel- Temptation (Legend of Faust)

for Vaclav Havel, (Czech playwright and dissident, jailed several times for his activities, former President of Czechoslovakia) the "rational" carried to surreal lengths of irrationality is not a theatrical technique but a fact of lif ein Czechoslovakia since the Soviet invasion of 1968. Yet in universalizing his tale through the Faust legend, he forcefully reminds us that under conditions of modern bureaucracy, neither East nor West holds a monopoly on the sale of souls.

Grove Press, 1989. paperback, good condition except for mark left by price sticker on front cover.