Letter From Prague: Ivan Klima Describes how Pop Singers Threaten a Great Literary Tradition

Posted on by Tom Fleming

  Literature and in particular, writers have played an exceptional role in the history of the ·modern Czech nation. It was mainly writers who were responsible for the National Revival and the rebirth of the Czech language at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In this century’s atmosphere of strong nationalism, writers (often mediocre ones) […]

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