Author: Steiner, Peter
Title: The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (2000). orig.boards. 23x15cm, ix,244 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Politics or Poetics: An Introduction; Tropos Kynikos: 'The Good Soldier Svejk' by Jaroslav Hasek; Radical Liberalism: 'Apocryphal Stories' by Karel Capek; The Past Perfect Hero: Julius Fucik and 'Reportage': Written from the Gallows'; The Poetics of a Political Trial: Working People vs. Rudolf Slansky and His Fellow Conspirators; Ironies of History: 'The Joke' by Milan Kundera; Cops or Robbers: 'The Beggar's Opera' by Vá clav Havel.

Keywords: Czech Literary History, Czechoslovakia, Literature, Social Political, Politics Criticism, Milan Kundera, Vaclav Havel, Julius Fucik, Karel Capek