Abstract
This article is concerned with the analysis of Václav Havel's essay The Power of the Powerless in the perspective of the narratology and of Barthes's mythology. The persuasiveness of the essay is based not only on the diagnosis of the social lie in the normalization Czechoslovakia but also on the forcefulness of the used literary methods.
Under the terms of the interpretation of this kind, I can no more understand The Power of the Powerless as a certain description of the age but I understand it as a rigid symbolic field which produces the specific perspective of the meaning. This study is focused on revealing narrative means creating this perspective.