The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945

by Harold B. Segel

Book Overview

For nearly half a century, the Iron Curtain obscured from Western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Seen as a whole, the literatures of Eastern Europe during the second half of the twentieth century are extraordinarily rich, and in recent years many Eastern European novelists, poets, and playwrights have attracted wider attention and broader publication in the West. And yet no reference work, embracing all the countries of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231114044
• ISBN13: 9780231114042
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 10.2"