A discoverer of himself

The Czech author Monika Zgustova, who translated Havel's works into Spanish, celebrates the Czech ex-president and poet as an explorer: "That was Havel: For him the intellectual, linguistic, ethical and philosophical questions always came first. His entire body of work - starting with the first visual poems of the 1960s known as typograms, his avant-garde plays and essays from his times as a dissident and culminating with his last play - is full of these questions. Havel was always interested in experimenting. He wanted to go a step further than had already been taken - both in his books and plays and his function as president. He always had to discover something new - and at the same time discover himself."

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