Brian Goodman – The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain

Name: Brian Goodman – The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain
Start: 2026-04-28T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-28T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR

Schedule

Tue Apr 28 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR | Prague, PR

V úterý 28. dubna 2026 od 18 hodin vystoupí v dolním sále Ústavu pro českou literaturu AV ČR (Na Florenci 3, Praha 1) Brian Goodman (Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University; Arizona State University) s přednáškou nazvanou „The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain“.
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Anotace:
How did risky encounters between American and Czech writers in communist-era Prague shape the literary politics of the Cold War era? In the 1970s, the novelist Philip Roth regularly visited “the city of Kafka,” where he befriended Ivan Klíma, Milan Kundera, and Helena Klímová, and established the influential paperback series “Writers from the Other Europe.” This is just one episode from a much wider history of literary exchange across the Iron Curtain. What can this history tell us about the translation of literature into dissent?