Ivan Klima, the Czech novelist who defied totalitarian regimes while surviving two extreme periods – one under Hitler, the other under communism – has become one of Central Europe’s most perceptive distillers of the human condition under…

Ivan Klima, the Czech novelist who defied totalitarian regimes while surviving two extreme periods – one under Hitler, the other under communism – has become one of Central Europe’s most perceptive distillers of the human condition under…