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This tradition has continued under totalitarian conditions, where it has gained its own special coloring: the written word seems to have acquired a kind of heightened radioactivity-otherwise they wouldn't lock us up for it!" For years, writers have stood in for politicians: they were the renewers of the national community, maintainers of the national language, awakeners of the national conscience, interpreters of the national will. I would say that in Czechoslovakia the problem is just the opposite.The idea that a writer is the conscience of his nation has its own logic and its own tradition here. Have you ever, as a Czech writer, had this feeling of not being needed? Or have you ever thought about how the Czech version of "not being needed" differs from the Western version?
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"In the West it's often said the anxiety of the modern artist comes from the feeling that modern society doesn't need him.
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The passage below really spoke to me, and to my feelings about current political situation in the US in 2017. I've been re-reading Disturbing the Peace, a book-length interview with Vaclav Havel, the Czech political dissident, absurdist playwright, and first president of Czechoslovakia after the fall of communism.