Volume 28, Number 19 · December 3, 1981
Czech Nightmares
By Werner Paul, Translated by Gitta Honegger
Listy ("Letters") Rome, Italy) June 1981, no. 3-4
Journal of the Czech Socialist Opposition (Via Torre Argentina 21,
'Summer and Indian Summer Reading' was the title of an eighty-two page literary supplement accompanying the June issue of the important Czech exile magazine Listy. Now in its twelfth year, Listy is published in Rome by Jirí Pelikán, who had been director of Czech television prior to the August invasion and is now the representative of the Italian socialists at the European Parliament. He and his staff, above all A.J. Liehm, who was before 1968 an important Czech journalist and is today professor of Slavic literature at the University of Pennsylvania, apparently wanted to show their consideration for their 'vacationing readers' immediate needs' by offering them something different from the usual articles about politics economics, and philosophy, that is, a selection from the literary output of seventeen Czech writers.
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