Rozhovory východ–západ u kulatého stolu
Roundtable discussions between East and West

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the Austrian Society for Literature and their contacts with authorsin the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe during the 1960s.The Society, with the secret financial support of Congress for Cultural Freedom, heldthree international conferences on novel and drama, where East and West participantsmet in the period of the Cold War, an conflict between two opposed ideological blocks.In October 1965 twenty seven novelists came to Vienna to discuss the literary realismand the realistic novel, the “nouveau roman” and the future of the novel. The Viennesecultural and historical spirit and the ability of the hosting Society allowed this conferenceto become a meeting place of opposite ideas and meanings.

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