Keane continues to chronologically log all the important events in Havel's life -- from his formation of a youthful literary circle christened the Thirty-Sixers to his first plays to his imprisonment for his promotion of Charter 77, a document which pointed to the discrepancies between law and reality in socialist Czechoslovakia.

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Throughout his life Manet surrounded himself with a wide circle of friends and admirers, including leading figures from the artistic, literary and musical communities.

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