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search  Articles by Slavoj Žižek  Vaclav Havel: A Political
Tragedy in Six Acts by John Keane · Bloomsbury, 532 pp, £25.00
Vaclav Havel's life would seem to be an unrivalled success
story: the Philosopher-King, a man who combines political power
with a global moral authority comparable only to that of the
Pope, the Dalai Lama or Nelson Mandela. And just as at the end
of a fairy tale when the hero is rewarded for all his suffering
by marrying the princess, he is married to a beautiful movie
actress. Why, then, has John Keane chosen as the subtitle of his
biography 'A Political Tragedy in Six Acts'?</p>  In the
Seventies, when Havel was still a relatively unknown Czech
dissident writer, Keane played a crucial role in making him
known in the West: he organised the publication of Havel's
political texts and became a friend. He also did much to
resuscitate Havel's notion of 'civil society' as