{"product_id":"new-writing-in-czechoslovakia-edited-by-george-theiner","title":"'New Writing in Czechoslovakia' edited by George Theiner","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"203\" data-end=\"601\"\u003eRare little bird.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew \u003cem data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"246\"\u003eWriting in Czechoslovakia\u003c\/em\u003e gathers fiction, poetry, satire, and short prose from Czech and Slovak writers working in the volatile cultural atmosphere of the 1960s. First published in 1969, the anthology arrives right on the hinge between the Prague Spring, Soviet invasion, censorship, exile, and the broader question of what literature can do when public speech becomes dangerous. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contents are properly strong: Josef Škvorecký, Milan Kundera, Miroslav Holub, Jaroslav Seifert, Ivan Diviš, Karel Michal, Vladimír Holan and others. It has that wonderful Eastern\/Central European mixture of absurdity, political pressure, folk sharpness, bureaucratic dread, lyric violence, and very dry comedy — the sort of writing where a joke is often carrying a corpse under its coat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1206\"\u003eA brilliant little anthology for readers interested in Czech literature, postwar European writing, dissident literature, Cold War culture, literary modernism, satire, poetry, and strange fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1431\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin paperback, first published 1969. Edited\/introduced by George Theiner. Good vintage condition with age-toning, light rubbing and shelf wear to covers\/edges; internally clean and intact.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45347025715283,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-05T134942.783.png?v=1780631397","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/new-writing-in-czechoslovakia-edited-by-george-theiner","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}