Detailed Information on Publication Record
2019
Writing Underground. Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia
MACHOVEC, MartinBasic information
Original name
Writing Underground. Reflections on Samizdat Literature in Totalitarian Czechoslovakia
Authors
MACHOVEC, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Praha, 252 pp. 2019
Publisher
Karolinum
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Odborná kniha
Field of Study
60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Publication form
printed version "print"
RIV identification code
RIV/46358978:_____/19:00000039
Organization
Univerzita Jana Amose Komenského Praha s.r.o. – Repository
ISBN
978-80-246-4125-6
Keywords (in Czech)
Samizdatové publikace;undergroundová literatura v Československu
Keywords in English
Samizdat publications;Underground literature in Czechoslovakia
Tags
International impact
Změněno: 24/3/2020 14:28, Ing. Kateřina Lendrová
Abstract
V originále
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 Půlnoc 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 In his final, previously unpublished essay, Machovec examines Jirous’s “Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival” not as a merely historical document, but as literature itself.