I am someone who visited Prague in 2019 and was wonderfully taken by its charm. It was so beautiful and so cozy that I completely fell in love with the city.

The books presented in this article are among the various books I have read and would especially recommend to you. These books will surely make you feel the charm of Prague even more.

This book is a biography about Masaryk, who became the first president of the independent Czech Republic after World War I. He was originally a professor of philosophy and was deeply respected by his people, who called him the philosopher president because of his virtue. Why is the Czech Republic so cultured? Why do they value thought and language so highly? I felt that Masaryk had such a clue.

Tom Stoppard's "Rock and Roll" exquisitely captures the controversy between two of Prague's greatest writers, Milan Kundera and Václav Havel, and moreover the atmosphere of Prague under repression.

I highly recommend this work to anyone who wants to learn more about the Prague Spring and more about Havel and Kundera.

Havel's "Garden Party" is in the genre known as the absurdist drama.
It is not a straightforward comedy play, but rather surrealistic in any case.
The audience is made to laugh at the ill-conceived conversations, exchanges, and satire.
Moreover, the absurdity of this work by Havel is like a strange development, reminiscent of Kafka.
It is a wonderful example of Prague's high level of culture.

In this collection of letters, you can read a variety of correspondence, including private correspondence with his wife, scenes of prison life, Havel's observations, musings, and essay-style writing.

I read this book imagining him writing this letter silently at his desk during his difficult prison life. I cannot get over the human magnitude of Havel's desperate resistance during the era of Soviet repression.