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A Report from the English Department at Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia

In the spring of 1989, I delivered a series of lectures on American literature at Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia. After one of the lectures, a student asked me what Americans thought about the Czech dissident playwright Vaclav Havel, who at that time was under arrest and facing the possibility of a long prison sentence. My honest answer was that aside from a few intellectuals and experts on Central Europe, Americans did not know of Havel's existence. When I returned to lecture at Charles in the spring of 1990, no one bothered to ask the question. The gala Washington reception given the new Czechoslovak president had been seen on television by nearly everyone.