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Largo Desolato is a semi-autobiographical play by Václav Havel about a political dissident, Leopold Nettles (originally in Czech Kopřiva), who fears being sent to prison for his writing.
Jan 1, 2001 · One of Havel's best-known plays, Largo Desolato vividly dramatizes the multiple contradictions of the intellectual trapped in a totalitarian nightmare.
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Largo Desolato is a semi-autobiographical play by the Czech playwright Vaclav Havel about a writer called Leopold Nettles who has come under surveillance from the government due...
Dive deep into Vaclav Havel's Largo Desolato with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Apr 20, 1990 · Largo Desolato: Directed by Jiri Zizka. With F. Murray Abraham, George Martin, Sally Kirkland, Barton Heyman. Political prisoner awaits in his jail cell to learn what his faith will be. Based on a play by Czech political prisoner turned president Vaclav Havel.
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Largo Desolato falls clearly in line with Havel’s body of work, extending many of his most important themes; it also addresses issues that are central to contemporary literary and philosophical...
About The Book. Professor Leopold Nettles, the “hero” of Largo Desolato, is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph laying him open to arrest on charges of “disturbing the intellectual peace.” Pressed by the government to recant, Nettles is tortured—by internal demons as well as external ones.
