Jiří Theiner Orden de los libros (cronológico)

The plays in this volume, which complements Selected Plays 1963-1983 are Largo Desolato, Temptation and Redevelopment in versions by Tom Stoppard, George Theiner and James Saunders respectively.Their themes are freedom of thought, Faustian opportunism and town planning as metaphors for life in Eastern Europe before the collapse of Communism, all handled with their author's characteristic wit and irony, and written before he was translated from a prison to the highest office of state.

A play in ten scenes with a Faustian motif set in a scientific institute. The main character, scientist Foustka, yearns for metaphysical knowledge, which is to be imparted to him by the disabled pensioner Fistula.

Seven witty stories, one for each day of the week, give a vivid picture of Prague before the Velvet Revolution.