Largo Desolato
Book Details
Author(s)Vaclav Havel
PublisherGrove Weidenfeld
ISBN / ASIN0802151639
ISBN-139780802151636
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,483,052
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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. Vaclav Havel has created a vivid and terrifying portrait of the writer in the totalitarian state that is as real and immediate as today’s headlines.


