Good-bye, Samizdat: Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Underground WritingGood-bye, Samizdat offers the first collection of the best of Czechoslovakia's samizdat, underground texts from the era 1948 through 1990. Divided into three sections, the volume includes fiction, cultural and political works, and philosophical essays. The writings reflect the thought of some of Czechoslovakia's best-known minds--Klima, Vaculik, and Havel--as well as others yet unknown in the West. Taken together, they capture the artistic and intellectual mood of a country situated at a focal point between East and West at a fascinating point in history. |
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Contents
PARTI LITERATURE | 3 |
Ivan Klíma The Eyeglasses 1974 | 20 |
Pavel Kohout Golem II 1977 | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Good-bye, Samizdat: Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Underground Writing Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz No preview available - 1992 |
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| Title | Good-bye, Samizdat: Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Underground Writing |
| Authors | Paul Wilson, Ilsa A. Mozga, Milan Pomichalek, Igor Hajek, Erazim V. Kohak |
| Editor | Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz |
| Contributor | Timothy Garton Ash |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0810110105, 9780810110106 |
| Length | 309 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / Eastern |
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