Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture Under Communism by Bolton, Jonathan
Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture Under Communism by Bolton, Jonathan

Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture Under Communism

"Worlds of Dissent" analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and...
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Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture Under Communism by Bolton, Jonathan

Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture Under Communism

$188.55
Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture Under Communism by Bolton, Jonathan

Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture Under Communism

$188.55
Author: Jonathan Bolton
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"Worlds of Dissent" analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences-diverse, uncertain, nameless-have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia.

Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Vaclav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West-including Ludvik Vaculik, whose 1980 diary "The Czech Dream Book" is a compelling portrait of dissident life.

Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. "Worlds of Dissent" offers a rare opportunity to understand the texture of dissent in a closed society."

Author: Jonathan Bolton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 04/25/2012
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780674064386


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2012

About the Author
Jonathan Bolton is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.


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