Jiří Holý Book order

"This publication is the result of a workshop which took place in Prague (in June 2012) and was organized by the Prague Centre for Jewish Studies, the Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University and the Institute of Czech Literature at the Academy of Sciences. It focuses on the problems of depicting the Shoah/the Holocaust in Central Europe, primarily in Czech, Slovak, German, Austrian and Polish literature and film. The workshop ... was held in Prague on the 21st and 22nd of June in the Institute of Czech Literature at the Academy of Sciences ... Each paper is published either in English or German, including a summary in the other language."--Foreword.

An history that presents a canvas of post-war Czech literary developments within the cultural and political context of the times. It provides information about the many English-language translations from Czech literature, and the circumstances in which these translations came about.