Engineering in the Age of Innocence: A Genealogy of Discourse Inside the Czechoslovak Writers' Union, 1949-67
Engineering in the Age of Innocence: A Genealogy of Discourse Inside the Czechoslovak Writers' Union, 1949-67

Summary/Abstract: In a September 1967 interview, the Czech writer Jaroslav Putfk noted that "it is part of the irony of fate that it was precisely the generation of the young Stalinists that became the de-Stalinizing vanguard." It was a vanguard that had departed far from its origins. Few of Milan Kundera's Western readers are aware that the dissident emigre and novelist-critic of totalitarianism wrote odes to Stalin early in his literary career. Yet Kundera is far from an anomaly, and pointing to his often-neglected history should be taken less as an attack than as a point of departure for a fascinating genealogy. [...]

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