Václav Havel, who died on Sunday, will be remembered as a moral beacon in a sometimes rudderless world. Perhaps best known as the leader of the Velvet Revolution, Havel was also a dissident playwright and philosopher, a tireless human rights activist and a world leader. We will look at Václav Havel from all these perspectives as we try to shed light on his complex life.
Guest
David S. Danaher, Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaches a monograph literature-in-translation course, "The Writings of Václav Havel: Critique of Modern Society", and is working on a book tentatively titled Reading Václav Havel.
