The walls behind the curtain : East European prison literature, 1945-1990

The walls behind the curtain : East European prison literature, 1945-1990 /

"Because of their visibility in society and ability to shape public opinion, prominent literary figures were among the first targets of Communist repression, torture, and incarceration. Authors such as Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn famously documented the experience of internment in Soviet gulags. Lit...

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Other Authors: Segel, Harold B., 1930-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Multiple
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
©2012
Series:Series in Russian and East European studies.
Subjects:
Prisoners' writings, East European > Translations into English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Continental European.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Eastern.
Prisoners' writings, East European
Europe, Eastern > Literary collections > Translations into English.
Eastern Europe
Translations
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • About the Artist, Maks Velo
  • Introduction
  • Albania
  • Jusuf Vrioni (1916-2001)
  • Arshi Pipa (1920-2002)
  • Kasëm Trebeshina (b. 1926)
  • Maks Velo (b. 1935 )
  • Fatos T. Lubonja (b. 1951)
  • Visar Zhiti (b. 1952)
  • Besnik Mustafaj (b. 1958)
  • Bulgaria / Macedonia
  • Venko Markovski (1915-1988)
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Jiří Hejda (1895-1985)
  • Jan Zahradníček (1905-1960)
  • František Daniel Merth (1915-1995)
  • Jiří Mucha (1915-1991)
  • Lenka Reinerová (1916-2008)
  • Karel Pecka (1928-1997)
  • Eva Kantůrková (b. 1930)
  • Milan Šimečka (1930-1990)
  • Rudolf Dobiáš (b. 1934)
  • Poets from Dobiáš's Básnici za mrežami: Antológia poézie napísanej vo väzení
  • Vojtech Belák (1928-2008)
  • Pavol Brodnaňský (1930-2004)
  • Vojtech Jenčík (1920-1976)
  • Alexander Rodan (pseudonym of Ján Pospišel, 1919-1990)
  • Štefan Sandtner (1916-2006)
  • Marián Skala(pseudonym of Ján Krajňák, n.d.)
  • Ladislav Záborský (b. 1921)
  • Václav Havel (1936-2011)
  • Hungary
  • Tibor Déry (1894-1977)
  • György Faludy (1910-2006)
  • Árpád Göncz (b. 1922)
  • Ádám Bodor(b. 1936)
  • Poland
  • Marek Nowakowski (b. 1935)
  • Adam Michnik (b. 1946)
  • Tomasz Jastrun(b. 1950)
  • Romania
  • Nichifor Crainic (1889-1972)
  • Radu Gyr (pseudonym of Radu Demetrescu
  • 1905-1975)
  • Nicolae (Nicu) Steinhard (1912-1989)
  • Ion Caraion (pseudonym of Stelian Diaconescu
  • 1923-1985)
  • Marcel Petrişor (b. 1930)
  • Paul Goma (b. 1935)
  • Yugoslavia
  • Milovan Djilas (1911-1995)
  • Igor Torkar (pseudonym of Boris Fakin
  • 1913-2004)
  • Vitomil Zupan (1914-1987)
  • Eligio (Ligio) Zanini (1927-1993)
  • Branko Hofman (1929-1991)
  • Borislav Pekić (1930-1992)
  • Dragoslav Mihailović (b. 1930)
  • Vlado Gotovac (1930-2000)
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.

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