Domácí beletrie šedesátých let očima exilových recenzentů
Fiction published in the 1960s in Czechoslovakia through the eyes of émigré rewievers

Summary/Abstract: During the 1960s émigré publishers book output fell markedly, which contemporary émigré critics responded to by shifting their attention to fiction published by official domestic publishers. Although émigré critics, as opposed to those at home, were in direct contact with current developments in world literature, they did not know the conditions under which Czechoslovak authors were working (and in which Czechoslovak publishers were preparing their new books for publication) from their own experience. On the one hand this enabled them to see new Czech fiction in its worldwide context, but then again they often found themselves entirely outside the readers’ and writers’ communication axis (and communication codes). The author of this study clarifies the personnel situation in 1960s émigré criticism, its value criteria and complex relations with the developments at home that were slowly moving towards the Prague Spring in 1968.

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