Writers under Siege : Czech Literature since 1945

Učebnice pro zahraniční studenty slavistiky a pro zájemce o českou literaturu; – s Preface and Acknowledgments (s. viii-ix); s úvodem The Development of Czech Literature (s. 1–5) a s částmi: The Forties and Fifties (s. 6–55, s oddíly: From May to February /s kapitolami: Reverberations of War; The Testimony of Poetry; The Politico-Cultural Debate; The War Generation; Prose/; The Bleak Years /Stalinism; Literature in the Grip of Dogmatism; Exile; Underground Literature; Signs of the Thaw/; The Thaw /The Decline of Stalinism; Poetry; Drama and the Theatre; Prose/); The Sixties (s. 56–129, Between Dogmatism and Reformism /The Rise of Criticism; Freedom of Expression; Politico-Cultural Polemics/; A Happy Era in Literature /Poetry; Changes in Prose; Novels of Disillusionment; Literary Criticism/; The Sixties Generation /The Development of the Younger Generation; Poetry; Drama and the Theatre, Prose; Singers and Songwriters/; The Experimental Era /Poetry; Prose/; Nineteen Sixty-Eight /Writers in Conflict with the Communist Party; „The Prague Spring“; Defeat of the Reformers/); The Seventies and Eighties (s. 130–197, Normalization /Restoring „Order“; Literature Divided/; The Three Worlds of Literature /Literature Published in Czechoslovakia; A Grey Area; The Creation of Samizdat; Samizdat Literature; Literature in Exile; Drama and the Theatre; Literary Criticism/; The Eighties Generation and Postmodernism /The Eighties Generation; Prose and Postmodernism; Drama and the Theatre; Poets and Songwriters/); The Nineties and the Early Twenty-First Century (s. 198–218, Literary Life without Barriers /Change of Function; Poetry; Prose/); – s Conclusion: Lines of Development (s. 219–221); Profiles of the Most Important Czech Writers since 1945 (s. 222–287); Anthologies of Czech Postwar Literature in English (s. 288–292); Notes (s. 293–312); Bibliography (s. 313–323); Index (s. 324–363).