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Temptation (Havel, Vaclav)

Temptation (Havel, Vaclav)
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Manufacturer: Grove Press
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 3.0/5Average rating of 3.0/5Average rating of 3.0/5Average rating of 3.0/5Average rating of 3.0/5

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.8625
EAN: 9780802131003
ISBN: 080213100X
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: 1994-01-12
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press
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Editorial Reviews:
In his most challenging work to date, Czech playwright Vaclav Havel has given the Faust legend a provocative twist. His setting is 'the Institute, ' whose mission is to combat the 'irrational tendencies' in society through its scientific work. Personal and professional relationships at this 'lighthouse of truthful knowledge' are a tissue of lies and sycophancy in which all concerned willingly collude.


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Summary: Enter Agent, Stinky Feet And All.
Comment: I kind of love this play. It is Faust transferred into an institutional scientific Communist world with highlights of bizarre people and behavior. Like an expression of the freakish in symbolic response to the popularity of the irrational Havel makes Faust into Faustka, a scientist from The Institute who is curious about black magic. But he must be secretive, and must tread lightly when Fistula (read: Mephistopheles) arrives, stinky fungal feet and all. Does Fistula want to pass on the dark arts, or is he a menace from The State? Then there is the whaky contingent at The Institute, full of syncophantry, overt homosexuality and ass-kissing, they are all as one, their intentions to merely appease the concrete gods of the state.
Beyond that, beyond Faustka as a man condemned to play the fool, what with his curiosities and according lies, and Fistula as a supremely unpleasant agent of evil, this also is about the uninterested and essentially corrupt soul of Communism. Much repect to Havel too, activist, prisoner, president, artist.
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