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Samizdat Past & Present
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SYSNO ASEP 0502739 Document Type B - Monograph R&D Document Type The record was not marked in the RIV Title Samizdat Past & Present Author(s) Glanc, T. (ed. CZ)
Romanová, Gabriela (UCL-M ed.) RID, ORCID, SAIIssue data Praha: Institute of Czech Literature Praha: Karolinum Press, 2018 ISBN 978-80-88069-76-8978-80-246-4033-4 Number of pages 250 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords censorship ; samizdat literature ; underground culture ; independent literature ; freedom of thought Subject RIV AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision OECD category Specific literatures Institutional support UCL-M - RVO:68378068 Annotation Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature—the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludvík Vaculík, and Jáchym Topol, among many others—has, in fact, just recently become widely available to readers. Long published only in censored form or in secret among political dissidents, this body of underground literature is collectively known as samizdat. Samizdat Past and Present provides an expert introduction to these writings and their history, offering insight into both the current wave of literary rediscovery and translation and contemporary debates over censorship. In a diverse array of chapters, Tomáš Glanc gathers together texts from representative figures of Czech samizdat and underground culture of the 1960s to ’80s and provides a useful comparison of Czech, Polish, and Russian samizdat. From literary historians to former samizdat publishers and writers with firsthand experience of communist censorship, secret police, fake trials, and imprisonment, the authors of Samizdat Past and Present illuminate the complexities of literature written under censorship and the struggle for freedom of thought in a totalitarian regime. Workplace Institute of Czech Literature Contact Pavla Hartmanová, hartmanova@ucl.cas.cz ; Veronika Zemanová, zemanova@ucl.cas.cz, asep@ucl.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 828 135 Year of Publishing 2019
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