{"product_id":"samizdat-pastpresent-tom-s-glanc-9788024640334","title":"Samizdat Past+present","description":"Much of what we now consider the canon of twentieth-century Czech literature--the work of authors like Bohumil Hrabal, Ludv k Vacul k, and J chym Topol, among many others--has, in fact, just recently become widely available to readers. Long published only in censored form or in secret among political dissidents, this body of underground literature is collectively known as samizdat. \u003ci\u003eSamizdat Past and Present\u003c\/i\u003e provides an expert introduction to these writings and their history, offering insight into both the current wave of literary rediscovery and translation and contemporary debates over censorship. In a diverse array of chapters, Tom s Glanc gathers together texts from representative figures of Czech samizdat and underground culture of the 1960s to '80s and provides a useful comparison of Czech, Polish, and Russian samizdat. From literary historians to former samizdat publishers and writers with firsthand experience of communist censorship, secret police, fake trials, and imprisonment, the authors of \u003ci\u003eSamizdat Past and Present \u003c\/i\u003eilluminate the complexities of a literature written under censorship and the struggle for freedom of thought in a totalitarian regime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tomás Glanc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8024640333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788024640334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Karolinum Press, Charles University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Tomás Glanc","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075237638399,"sku":"9788024640334","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ffa98d00-f405-4176-a2f3-ab9c3ed008f9.jpg?v=1685458392","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/samizdat-pastpresent-tom-s-glanc-9788024640334","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}