Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain

ISBN-13: 9789633860229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 450 str.

Friederike Kind-Kovcs

Opis

This book proposes a new perspective on the role of literature in the Cold War and shifts the reader's attention to the gaps in the ostensibly impenetrable Iron Curtain. It uncovers the histories of the widely forgotten phenomenon of tamizdat: "publishing-over-there." Investigating the transfer of nonconformist literature from the "Other Europe" to Western Europe and the United States fosters a new perspective on the seemingly separable literary cultures of Cold War Europe.