Writing underground : reflections on Samizdat literature in totalitarian Czechoslovakia /

Writing underground : reflections on Samizdat literature in totalitarian Czechoslovakia /

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Author / Creator:	Machovec, Martin, 1956- author.
Edition:	First English edition.
Imprint:	Prague : Karolinum Press, 2019.
Description:	251 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Modern Czech classics Modern Czech classics.
Subject:	Underground literature -- Czechoslovakia -- History and criticism. Czech literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Counterculture -- Czechoslovakia -- History. Czech literature. Underground literature. Czechoslovakia. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12309110

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Varying Form of Title:	Reflections on Samizdat literature in totalitarian Czechoslovakia
ISBN:	9788024641256 8024641259 9788024641515 9788024642918 9788024642925
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography (pages 212-236) and index.
Summary:	In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the underground phenomenon. After devoting considerable attention to the circle surrounding the band The Plastic People of the Universe and their manager, the poet Ivan M. Jirous, Machovec turns outward to examine the broader concept of the underground, comparing the Czech incarnation not only with the movements of its Central and Eastern European neighbors, but also with those in the world at large. In one essay, he reflects on the so-called Pulnoc Editions, which published illegal texts in the darkest days of the late forties and early fifties. In other essays, Machovec examines the relationship between illegal texts published at home (samizdat) and those smuggled out to be published abroad (tamizdat), as well as the range of literature that can be classified as samizdat, drawing attention to movements frequently overlooked by literary critics. In his final, previously unpublished essay, Machovec examines Jirous's "Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival" not as a merely historical document, but as literature itself.
Other form:	Online version: Machovec, Martin. Writing underground. Reflections on illegal texts in communist Czechoslovakia. Praha : Karolinum Books 2019 9788024641515

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