A new, wonderful world. About the book Listopadove promeny.

Authors

  • Anna Maślanka Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24917/20811861.20.49

Keywords:

Czech literature, Slovak literature, Velvet Revolution, political transformation, 1990s, 1989

Abstract

The article is a discussion of the publication Listopadove promeny. Ceska a slovenska literatura v kontextu roku 1989, in which Czech and Slovak researchers reflect on literary and publishing phenomena of the breakthrough period of political transformation in 1989. The texts collected in the book concern both the second half of the 1980s - when, as Alena Sidakova Fialova notes, cultural and literary activity resembled walking on a minefield - and the 1990s, when writers, publishers, and booksellers often had great difficulty adjusting to the new, capitalist reality. The very diverse themes of individual texts allow us to observe the effects of political changes on many different levels. The publication itself fills a certain research gap, bringing closer through specific phenomena of the era that largely shaped the way the Czech and Slovak literary world functions today.

References

Fialová A., Česká próza po roce 1989, Středisko společných činností AV ČR, Praha 2015, [on-line:] https://www.academia.cz/uploads/media/preview/0001/04/3046394 e3fcf3b465a0dd1e40d28c1f16c82d750.pdf – 11.10.2022.

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V souřadnicích volnosti. Česká literatura devadesátých let dvacátého století v interpretacích, red. P. Hruška, L. Machala, L. Vodička, J. Zizler, Praha 2008, s. 9.

Published

2023-03-29 — Updated on 2023-04-18

How to Cite

Maślanka, A. (2023). A new, wonderful world. About the book Listopadove promeny. AUPC Studia Ad Bibliothecarum Scientiam Pertinentia, 20, 790–799. https://doi.org/10.24917/20811861.20.49

Issue

Section

Recenzje / Reviews