When I got this order from the library, I didn't look at the page count, and yes, it is just a small study guide, merely 27 pages or so.
Very interesting to read into The Memorandum, which was one of the first plays staged for Havel.
The play takes place over 2 days, and in it he describes a company manager, who has been told to learn the 'new language,' which is designed to make communications easier. He cannot get anyone to translate the memo that he has from the new language into a normal language, starting with nobody has the authority, to getting permission, to taking a class on this completely incomprehensible language himself.
Havel repeats himself many times in the play, or rather, has his characters repeat themselves many times, doing mundane tasks, and the repetition is just because that is what they have to do in a communist society and company.
The manager works through confusion, a subordinate trying to undermine him at any opportunity, frustrating coworkers, and a general air of confusion, especially that this is not the first time... in fact, this is the way it always seems to be... and resignation, because this is their fate.
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