Kontestacja à rebours. O pisarstwie i nie-pisarstwie Karla Michala
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Date
2014
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Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje
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Contestation à rebours. On Writing and Non-Writing of Karel Michal
Abstract
The problem of transfer from the official to the unofficial culture is one of the most significant
phenomena in the post-war Czech literature history. Resistance against the limitations on creative
autonomy set by the government led to the emergence of particular contestation attitudes and to the
creation of counterculture, understood as a dissident and exile culture, as well as the underground.
In this landscape, Karel Michal’s position is peculiar and difficult to classify; his contestation is
total, as it is pointed at not only the subordination of literature to norms set by the regime, but also
at the expectations put on it by the dissident community. In texts which appeared during his exile,
he presents an uncompromising approach to the issue of the engagement of literature and roles assumed by a writer arbitrarily. A consequence of his radical position is the growing imperative to not
write, which leads to his complete withdrawal from literary life.
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Karel Michal, exile literature, censorship, contestation, negation, identity
Citation
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2014, nr 6, s.63–74
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978-83-63795-51-1
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2084-3011