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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:11:18 EST
- Sender: Discussion of Middle Europe topics <MIDEUR-L@UBVM.BITNET>
- From: George Frajkor <gfrajkor@CCS.CARLETON.CA>
- Subject: Re: Literature
- In-Reply-To: <9212112227.AA04356.4356@alfred.ccs.carleton.ca>; from "Gail M.
- Pietrzyk" at Dec 11, 92 11:28 am
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- Gail M. Pietrzyk writes:
- >
- > Is this list still active? I haven't seen anything on it for quite some
- > time now.
- > I wonder if anyone here knows if there might be a listserv on Central
- > European literature? Or perhaps people on MidEur-l would like to take up
- > the topic.
- > I would be interested in hearing suggestions of works by Central European
- > authors - I've been reading quite a few, but am always glad to learn of new
- > ones.
-
- I know of no list specifically devoted to EE literature.
- It would be a welcome change from the usual political debate on Mideur
- if you opened the topic. However, to mix politics with literature, is
- it not remarkable that writers and theatre people were so much of the
- leadership in the Velvet revolution? I do not think it was so in
- Poland (Trade union leaders), Hungary (politicians); or the Baltic
- republics (everybody). This was also true in the CSSR in 1968.
- why writers???
- Does it have anything to do with talent?? I am told that Havel's
- plays are really not very good as literature, and that his reputation
- is based on his moral posture rather than his literary one.
-
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