Largo Desolato

Professor Leopold Nettles, the ?hero? of Largo Desolato, is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph laying him open to arrest on charges of ?disturbing the intellectual peace.? Pressed by the government to recant, Nettles is tor­tured?by internal demons as well as external ones. Vaclav Havel has created a vivid and terrifying portrait of the writer in the totalitarian state that is as real and immediate as today?s headlines.