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Informationen zum Autor Writer and educational consultant Robert Murray Davis is professor emeritus of the University of Oklahoma. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Klappentext Based on extensive interviews with authors, editors, and publishers in four countries, this book examines the economic, social, and literary effect of the end of communist domination and accompanying cultural subsidies in Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. The end of the communist regime has made the position of writer less lucrative as well as less prestigious within these four countries. Likewise, the countries' respective publishing markets are struggling to adjust to a new economy in which books are more expensive, Western competition is ever-increasing, and distribution systems must be rebuilt. The author addresses each of these concerns as they affect the individual nations and Central Europe as a whole and includes extensive bibliographical citations for primary and secondary works referenced in each chapter. Zusammenfassung Based on interviews with authors! editors! and publishers in four countries! this book examines the economic! social! and literary effect of the end of communist domination and accompanying cultural subsidies in Slovenia! Slovakia! Hungary! and Romania. It shows that the end of the communist regime has made the position of writer less lucrative. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Very Different: Central European and American Poets 2. Out of the Shadows: Slovene Writing After Independence 3. Desperate but Not Serious: Hungarian Writing After 1989 4. Slovak Writing in Transition 5. Romanian Writing Redivivus 6. Transition-And After? And Beyond? Geopolitics, Marketing and Literary Anxieties in the New Central Europe Epilogue Appendix: Memorial Poem by Éva Toth Index
