Title The nonconformists : American and Czech writers across the Iron Curtain / Brian K. Goodman

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 352 pages) Contents 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 Škvorecký'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 Summary "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 Škvorecký, Václav Havel, Ivan Klíma, Ludvík Vaculík, 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2023) Subject Dissenters, Artistic -- United States -- History -- 20th century Dissenters, Artistic -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century Dissenters, Artistic -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History -- 20th century Authors, American -- History -- 20th century Authors, Czech -- History -- 20th century Cold War -- Influence. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War Authors, American Authors, Czech Dissenters, Artistic Intellectual life International relations War -- Influence SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia -- Relations -- United States Czechoslovakia -- Intellectual life -- 1945-1992. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035322 United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367 Subject Czech Republic -- Prague Czechoslovakia United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0674292952 9780674292956

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