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 129
... sense of fun , I replied , “ Tell them I will decide for myself how and when to play it ! " I have decided this is the time for me to sound a different note , because— apart from what I wanted to say - I am happy with the development of ...
... sense of fun , I replied , “ Tell them I will decide for myself how and when to play it ! " I have decided this is the time for me to sound a different note , because— apart from what I wanted to say - I am happy with the development of ...
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... sense of West European identity . The French , Italians , Swiss , or Dutch have not achieved this sense by philos- ophizing about some spirit of “ Europeanism ” while being kept in their small national cages , but by coming out of them ...
... sense of West European identity . The French , Italians , Swiss , or Dutch have not achieved this sense by philos- ophizing about some spirit of “ Europeanism ” while being kept in their small national cages , but by coming out of them ...
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... sense of an " East European identity " of a German or Czech is nothing more than an analogy to the sense with which the eagle and lion identify with the zoo where they are locked up , where they live side by side and from where there is ...
... sense of an " East European identity " of a German or Czech is nothing more than an analogy to the sense with which the eagle and lion identify with the zoo where they are locked up , where they live side by side and from where there is ...
Contents
An Introduction | 3 |
Ivan Klíma The Eyeglasses 1974 | 20 |
Pavel Kohout Golem II 1977 | 27 |
Copyright | |
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