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03780aam a2200565 i 4500 001 F982F68C3D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230818010103 008 221011t20232023mauab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022035477 020 $a 0674983378 020 $a 9780674983373 035 $a (OCoLC)1346152793 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-xr--- $a e-cs--- $a e-xr--- 050 00 $a PG5002.5.A4 $b N66 2023 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Goodman, Brian K., $d 1984- $e author. 245 14 $a The nonconformists : $b American and Czech writers across the Iron Curtain / $c Brian K. Goodman. 246 30 $a American and Czech writers across the Iron Curtain 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a viii, 352 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "In The Nonconformists, Brian K. Goodman reveals a history of hidden connections between dissenting literary cultures on both sides of the Iron Curtain. While American readers were devouring Kafka, Czech writers and translators were eagerly following cultural trends in the United States, importing and creatively appropriating works by Langston Hughes and Ernest Hemingway. Bridging these two worlds, Goodman reconstructs the journeys of American writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Miller, Philip Roth, and John Updike to Prague, where they established lasting friendships with their Czech counterparts, including Josef SÌkvoreckyÌ, VaÌclav Havel, Ivan KliÌma, LudviÌk VaculiÌk, and Milan Kundera. Even though all these writers were banned after a Soviet-led invasion ended the Prague Spring in 1968, the English-language reception of underground Czech literature would help transform the city of Kafka into an international capital of dissent"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Man Who Disappeared: Franz Kafka between Prague and New York -- Behind the Gold Curtain: F. O. Matthiessen on the Czechoslovak Road to Socialism -- The Cowards' Guide to World Literature: Josef SÌkvoreckyÌ's American Epigraphs -- The Kingdom of May: Allen Ginsberg through Springtime Prague -- The Tourist: Philip Roth and the Writers from the Other Europe -- Across the Gray Zone: American Writers and the Czech Jazz Section. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Dissenters, Artistic $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Dissenters, Artistic $z Czechoslovakia $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Dissenters, Artistic $z Prague $z Prague $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Authors, American $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Authors, Czech $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cold War $x Influence. 650 7 $a Authors, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821764 650 7 $a Authors, Czech. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821915 650 7 $a Dissenters, Artistic. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00895412 650 7 $a Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 $a International relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977053 650 7 $a War $x Influence. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170343 651 0 $a United States $x Relations $z Czechoslovakia. 651 0 $a Czechoslovakia $x Relations $z United States. 651 0 $a Czechoslovakia $x Intellectual life $y 1945-1992. 651 0 $a United States $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 651 7 $a Czech Republic $z Prague. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205207 651 7 $a Czechoslovakia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01212490 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021352.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F982F68C3D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search