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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Page 29
... less and less in exact reason and more and more in everything that resisted and defied the insanity to which , in spite of the first German defeats , there was no end . That is why weeks before she had decided to wait only for the ...
... less and less in exact reason and more and more in everything that resisted and defied the insanity to which , in spite of the first German defeats , there was no end . That is why weeks before she had decided to wait only for the ...
Page 98
... less so than for the history of the Communist party of the Soviet Union ) , and so we know absolutely nothing about the decision of that synod . Still , it is plausible to assume that for Gottschalk it could not have turned out worse ...
... less so than for the history of the Communist party of the Soviet Union ) , and so we know absolutely nothing about the decision of that synod . Still , it is plausible to assume that for Gottschalk it could not have turned out worse ...
Page 244
... less so today . Even today the shards of the world are still settling down in our reality in varying configurations , regard- less of the fact that most of us use the Latin alphabet and believe in one God . And still , all of life's ...
... less so today . Even today the shards of the world are still settling down in our reality in varying configurations , regard- less of the fact that most of us use the Latin alphabet and believe in one God . And still , all of life's ...
Contents
An Introduction | 3 |
Ivan Klíma The Eyeglasses 1974 | 20 |
Pavel Kohout Golem II 1977 | 27 |
Copyright | |
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