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The Columbia guide to the literature of Eastern Europe since 1945 : Albania (and Kosovo), Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia (and Montenegro), Slovakia, Slovenia by Segel, Harold B. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P>The Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe &#151; Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany &#151; share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.</P></p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>The Eastern Europe of this great new research tool does not refer strictly to geography but to those countries that emerged from World War II under the Soviet sphere of influence and/or were dominated by Communist governments until the late 1980s and 1990s. This massive work reveals an important and thriving region of writers, mainly unknown in the West, who share the devastating experiences of World War II and its aftermath as well as life under communism and its dissolution. Coming from very different so

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Segel, Harold B.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780231114042
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Reference, Memoir

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