Good-bye, Samizdat: Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Underground WritingMarketa Goetz-Stankiewicz Good-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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... give up Petlice , or . . . The third , very uncouth option was to become a reality in January 1977. It is something I have yet to write about . For years I had heard : " Give up Petlice and you can write what you like . " Those were the ...
... give up Petlice , or . . . The third , very uncouth option was to become a reality in January 1977. It is something I have yet to write about . For years I had heard : " Give up Petlice and you can write what you like . " Those were the ...
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... give all I possess to the needy , I may give my body to be burnt but if I have no love , I gain nothing by it . Love is patient and kind . Love envies no one , is never boastful , never conceited , never rude ; love is never selfish ...
... give all I possess to the needy , I may give my body to be burnt but if I have no love , I gain nothing by it . Love is patient and kind . Love envies no one , is never boastful , never conceited , never rude ; love is never selfish ...
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... give up the service of technology that furnishes me with the illusion of day , completely disengage myself from the ... gives up its perpendicular position in relation to the earth , humbly accepting the horizon- tal ; and man ...
... give up the service of technology that furnishes me with the illusion of day , completely disengage myself from the ... gives up its perpendicular position in relation to the earth , humbly accepting the horizon- tal ; and man ...
Contents
An Introduction | 3 |
Ivan Klíma The Eyeglasses 1974 | 20 |
Pavel Kohout Golem II 1977 | 27 |
Copyright | |
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