This work has tremendous magical power, so it may be difficult to get through it when you are tired or don't have a lot of time to spare.

I recommend that you read this book after you are in good physical condition and have some familiarity with Kafka.

Personally, I was quite impressed with this work. If you ask me if it was interesting or not, I honestly don't know. But it is true that it had a strong impact. This will be a work that I will never forget.

This work is also very Kafkaesque. Kafka is best known for "Metamorphosis," but I personally felt that it was more Kafkaesque than "Metamorphosis. It is a work so full of absurdity that it gives me chills.

It is a tough work, but it is a work that should be read by all, even if you are not a Kafka fan. It could be called a work of horror that moves along at an unhurried pace.

Transformation" is a work of a little more than 100 pages, so it can be read easily. The strange worldview may be confusing at first, but once you get used to it, you will be able to read it with ease. This is the best work to experience the strange and absurd world of Kafka. Why not pick up a copy?

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.

劇作家にしてチェコ大統領であるヴァーツラフ・ハヴェルの代表作『ジェブラーツカー・オペラ』

作品そのものももちろん面白いのですが、秀逸なのはこの本に書かれている解説です。

This book is highly recommended to grasp the post-Prague Spring atmosphere! We hope this book will be more widely disseminated.

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.

I knew from other books how difficult Havel's situation was, but reading this autobiography makes the severity of the situation even more apparent.

Amidst the suppression of speech by the Soviet Union, Havel's continued belief in the power of culture and the power of words as a playwright is astonishing in its spiritual power.

This book is one of the most shocking. It was one of the most impactful books I have read this year. I was originally interested in the Prague Spring, but this book made me rethink what was happening in Prague at that time and how they fought their way to the collapse of the Soviet bloc and won their freedom.